Letters From The Front Vol 1

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391606477
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Front, Vol. 10 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters From the Front, Vol. 10: Being a Partial Record of the Part Played by Officers of the Bank in the Great War We have heard today a great deal of the services rendered by the staff to the institution which we are proud to serve, and we have the quiet sense of the gratification of those who have really accomplished. One of the outstanding features of the institution is its ability to draw from its staff a willing and enthus iastic service. But after all, gentlemen, we must admit that that service offers the incentive of reward; it may be in gain, it may be in position, it may be in achievement, \but in whatever way considered, substantial. What then shall we say of those who, setting aside the result of years of striving and all hope of the future, voluntarily braved the tedium and monotony of the train ing camp, the hardships of the field and the rigor of a campaign such as has never been dreamed of? What was it led those men and women, too - for we are not without our representation of the gentler sex - to such acts of denial and sacrifice? -was it a sense of duty - the surging love of country that we call patriotism? Yea, these and more. As I judge it, it seems a recrudescence of that feeling out for freedom and liberty which led our forefathers to fight generation after generation, ofttimes in despair, but never daunted, until that choicest of all blessings was theirs, a freedom which suffers its own curtailment for the common good, and which we designate liberty. These struggles had hitherto been confined to communities, races and nations. Here, however, was a struggle world-wide in its scope. We might call it a battle for freedom in the abstract, a fight to the death lest the very idea of freedom be forever blotted out. To all comes this vision in more or less clear light; and, while many would disclaim any such visionary motive I am satisfied that somewhere behind the bravado which served as a cloak to their modesty that vision shone, were it ever so dim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.