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Herman Hesse was one of the greatest literary figures of the German-speaking world. His deep humanity and searching philosophy were developed in such masterly works as Siddhartha, Steppenwolf and Narcissus and Goldmund, which together with his poems and a number of critical works (including If the War Goes On . . .) won him a leading place among contemporary thinkers. In 1946 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1962 shortly after his eighty-fifth birthday.

Also by Hermann Hesse

Fiction

Demian

Steppenwolf

Narcissus and Goldmund

The Glass Bead Game

Siddhartha

Gertrude

Journey to the East

The Prodigy

Peter Camenzind

Rosshalde

Klingsor’s Last Summer

Knulp

Strange News from Another Star

Stories of Five Decades

Pictor’s Metamorphoses

In the Old Sun

Non-Fiction

Wandering

Autobiographical Writings

My Belief

Poetry

Poems

Crisis

Hours in the Garden

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First published in Great Britain in 1972 by Jonathan Cape Ltd

First published in German in 1946 under the title Krieg und Frieden: Betrachtungen zu Krieg and Politik seit dem Jahr 1914 Copyright © Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag AG, Zurich 1946 Contents included in Gesammelte Schriften, Copyright © Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin and Frankfurt 1957 Translation © Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, Inc. 1970, 1971

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ISBN 978 1 78689 445 8

eISBN 978 1 78689 446 5

Typeset in Goudy Old Style 11/14 pt by Palimpsest Book Production Ltd, Falkirk, Stirlingshire

Dedicated to the memory of my dear friend Romain Rolland

CONTENTS

Foreword to the 1946 Edition

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! (September 1914)

To a Cabinet Minister (August 1917)

If the War Goes On Another Two Years (End of 1917)