Excerpt from Germanism, and the American Crusade But here is the crux of the present situation. France and England have despatched to Italy an army that was needed for their well-planned offensive on the Western front. In compel ling the abandonment of that offensive, Ger many has won a swift and ominous strategic advantage, while at the same time striking the Italian armies at the moment which seemed to promise Italy's obliteration as a fighting force, and her possible reduction to the political con dition of Russia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.