This is a tendentious "history" of the French political scene from 1910 to about 1921. The author attacks the anticlerical, progressive political forces that attempted to head off World War I, and then as the war came to cost millions of lives, attempted to argue for an honorable and early peace. It supports the use of military commissions against those who dissented from the war. One particular target is the French political figure Joseph Caillaux, who was the center of very dramatic events but emerged as a major political figure in the post-WWI period.