Anglo-German rivalry (1875-1888)--The Kaiser.--Germany's world- policy.--Morocco: the Bagdad railway.--Alsace-Lorraine.--The Eastern question (1908-1913)--The crisis of 1914.--The rupture.--Appendix: I. Ship-building programmes of England, Germany and France (1905-1914) II. German plans in South-West Africa.--Index.