ABSTRACT
Volume One of this book ended at the point where Europe was already divided into two camps. On one side was the Austro-German Alliance. On the other was the Franco-British Entente. Italy was attached to Austria-Hungary and Germany by the Triple Alliance and to Britain and France by common interests in the Mediterranean and North Africa, which she had safeguarded by agreements with them and assurances to them that the Triple Alliance would not mean war on Italy's part against either of them. The system remained to be completed by the Russo-British Entente. This did not come into existence until 1907.
