On the Threshold of the Apocalypse: 1913-1915

On the Threshold of the Apocalypse: 1913-1915 is the seventh volume from Léon Bloyʼs personal journal begun in 1892. This volume begins one year before World War I began, but ends, like the author (who passed in 1917), before the great war ended. Often prescient when it comes to the European stage, and particularly the imminent threat posed by Prussian Germany, with respect to France, "the Eldest Daughter of the Church," – Bloy had been predicting a terrible cataclysm as far back as the ear...