The book “The Great War” is not so much a provocation as a reflection of the authors’ anxiety about the situation in the modern world. The New Great War has actually already begun. It has been running in Iraq since 1990, in Yugoslavia since 1989 and in the Caucasus since 1988. The acute phase of the Third World War will be longer and more terrible than the Second World War. If we fail to stop the new Great War, the worst is yet to come. The organizers of the Great War come up with the most incredible reasons for it. Anything to blame “others” and whitewash ourselves! On the pages of the book, the pre-war situations of previous world conflicts are analyzed and compared. The most important conclusion is that participants in wars lose much more than they win. Any reader will agree with the argument, supported by carefully selected objective facts.