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THE HUMAN SLAUGHTER-HOUSE - Scenes from the War that is Sure to Come
THE HUMAN SLAUGHTER-HOUSE - Scenes from the War that is Sure to Come
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Proofed and corrected from the original edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)
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"The Human Slaughter House", in its English translation, makes a book of but 97 pages. Yet it is one of the most remarkable and powerful indictments of war ever written. In realism it ranks with Zola's "The Downfall". In its appeal to the conscience of mankind it can only be compared with Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, "All Quiet on the Western Front".
The author, Wilhelm Lamszus, was a school master in Hamburg, Germany. Until the publication of this book, he ws unknown to the world. He awoke overnight, however, to find himself famous. As a schoolmaster in the Fatherland is primarily a state official, one can imagine the paradox of such a man daring to strip war of its pomp and circumstance. Naturally he was "relieved" of his duties. During that time he was the object of a most vehement attack by the German press. "A peril to the public safety," "an hysterical neuropath," "a morbid phantasy," are only a few of the milder epithets applied to him.
Of course, the public promptly responded as it always does in such cases. Over one hundred thousand copies of the book have been sold in Germany, and it was translated into eight foreign languages.
"The Human Slaughter House" is a description of the going to war, the fighting, the death and the resurrection of a common soldier, recorded by himself. The main purpose is to show that there is no such thing in modern warfare as a soldier's glorious death on the field of honor. "We can no longer go on pretending that war is what it used to be. ... War today is nothing but senseless automatic slaughter by machinery.... We are being hustled from life to death by experts—by mechanicians. And just as they turn out buttons and pins by wholesale methods of production, so they are now turning out the crippled and dead by machinery."
"The Human Slaughter House" is a photograph of Hell, inspired from Heaven. It cannot be adequately described. It must be read.
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"The Human Slaughter House", in its English translation, makes a book of but 97 pages. Yet it is one of the most remarkable and powerful indictments of war ever written. In realism it ranks with Zola's "The Downfall". In its appeal to the conscience of mankind it can only be compared with Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, "All Quiet on the Western Front".
The author, Wilhelm Lamszus, was a school master in Hamburg, Germany. Until the publication of this book, he ws unknown to the world. He awoke overnight, however, to find himself famous. As a schoolmaster in the Fatherland is primarily a state official, one can imagine the paradox of such a man daring to strip war of its pomp and circumstance. Naturally he was "relieved" of his duties. During that time he was the object of a most vehement attack by the German press. "A peril to the public safety," "an hysterical neuropath," "a morbid phantasy," are only a few of the milder epithets applied to him.
Of course, the public promptly responded as it always does in such cases. Over one hundred thousand copies of the book have been sold in Germany, and it was translated into eight foreign languages.
"The Human Slaughter House" is a description of the going to war, the fighting, the death and the resurrection of a common soldier, recorded by himself. The main purpose is to show that there is no such thing in modern warfare as a soldier's glorious death on the field of honor. "We can no longer go on pretending that war is what it used to be. ... War today is nothing but senseless automatic slaughter by machinery.... We are being hustled from life to death by experts—by mechanicians. And just as they turn out buttons and pins by wholesale methods of production, so they are now turning out the crippled and dead by machinery."
"The Human Slaughter House" is a photograph of Hell, inspired from Heaven. It cannot be adequately described. It must be read.
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