Nelsons History Of The War Vol 6 Classic Reprint

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656840250
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Nelson's History of the War, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) written by John Buchan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nelson's History of the War, Vol. 5 In those days, both in France and Britain, little was known of the great crisis now happil past. The French oflicial communique's gave the arest infor mation, and the Paris papers could not supplement it. The English Press continued to publish reassur ing articles and victorious headlines; indeed, we were officially told that our front had everywhere advanced on a day when it had everywhere fallen back. Hence, since the duration of the crisis had caused little anxiety, its end brought no special relief or rejoicing to the ordinary man. Soldiers returning on leave, solemnized by their desperate experience, were amazed at the perfect calmness of the British eople, till they discovered that it was due to a per ect ignorance. There is a peculiarly ex asperating type of optimism which in those days our troops had to suffer from. I suppose we are win ning hands down, said the Cheerful Civilian, and the soldier, with Ypres raw in his memory, muld only call upon his gods and hold his peace. This conspiracy of silence may have served some purpose in keeping our nerves quiet, though the courage of the British people scarcely deserves to be rated so low but in concealing from us the greatest military performance in all our history, it prevented that glow and exaltation of the national spirit which makes armies and Wins battles. 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.