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'''''If the War Goes On: Reflections on War and Politics'''''<ref name=Hesse1978/> is a series of essays and other writings by the German-born Swiss author [[Hermann Hesse]].  It covers the period 1914 to 1948.  Much of the book is critical of war and the German war effort, yet contains multifaceted accounts of various Germans who resisted war (especially [[Nazism]]).

==Essays==
*''O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!'' (September 1914)
*To a Cabinet Minister (August 1917)
*If the War Goes On Another Two Years (End of 1917)
*Christmas (December 1917)
*Shall There Be Peace? (December 1917)
*If the War Goes On Another Five Years (Early in 1918)
*The European (January 1918)
*Dream after Work (March 1918)
*War and Peace (Summer 1918)
*History (November 1918)
*The Reich (December 1918)
*The Path of Love (December 1918)
*Self-Will (1919)
*Zarathustra's Return (1919)
*Letter to a Young German (1919)
*Thou Shalt Not Kill (1919)
*Thoughts About China (1921)
*World Crisis and Books (1937)
*Page from a Notebook (1940)
*End of the Rigi-Journal (August 1945)
*Speech after Midnight (1946)
*Letter to Adele (1946)
*A Letter to Germany (1946)
*Message to the Nobel Prize Banquet (1946)
*Words of Moralizing Thanks (1946)
*To a Young Colleague in Japan (1948)
*An Attempt at Justification (1948)
*On [[Romain Rolland]] (1948)

== References ==
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<ref name=Hesse1978>{{citation |date=1978 |orig-year=1914 |author=Hesse, Hermann |title=If The War Goes On: Reflections on War and Politics |series=Translated by Ralph Manheim |place=London |publisher=Picador/Pan Books |isbn=0-330-24029-3 }}</ref>
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