{"product_id":"2940015735024","title":"Great Britain at War","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER                                               PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I FOREWORD                                           1\u003cbr\u003e   II CARTRIDGES                                         6\u003cbr\u003e  III RIFLES AND LEWIS GUNS                             12\u003cbr\u003e   IV CLYDEBANK                                         24\u003cbr\u003e    V SHIPS IN MAKING                                   33\u003cbr\u003e   VI THE BATTLE CRUISERS                               40\u003cbr\u003e  VII A HOSPITAL                                        58\u003cbr\u003e VIII THE GUNS                                          69\u003cbr\u003e   IX A TRAINING CAMP                                   88\u003cbr\u003e    X ARRAS                                            103\u003cbr\u003e   XI THE BATTLEFIELDS                                 115\u003cbr\u003e  XII FLYING MEN                                       125\u003cbr\u003e XIII YPRES                                            144\u003cbr\u003e  XIV WHAT BRITAIN HAS DONE                            156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGREAT BRITAIN AT WAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn publishing these collected articles in book form (the result of my\u003cbr\u003evisits to Flanders, the battlefields of France and divers of the\u003cbr\u003egreat munition centres), some of which have already appeared in the\u003cbr\u003epress both in England and America, I do so with a certain amount of\u003cbr\u003ediffidence, because of their so many imperfections and of their\u003cbr\u003einadequacy of expression. But what man, especially in these days, may\u003cbr\u003ehope to treat a theme so vast, a tragedy so awful, without a sure\u003cbr\u003eknowledge that all he can say must fall so infinitely far below the\u003cbr\u003edaily happenings which are, on the one hand, raising Humanity to a\u003cbr\u003egodlike altitude or depressing it lower than the brutes. But, because\u003cbr\u003ethese articles are a simple record of what I have seen and what I\u003cbr\u003ehave heard, they may perhaps be of use in bringing out of the\u003cbr\u003eshadow--that awful shadow of \"usualness\" into which they have\u003cbr\u003efallen--many incidents that would, before the war, have roused the\u003cbr\u003eworld to wonder, to pity and to infinite awe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the greater number of these articles was written, America has\u003cbr\u003ethrown her might into the scale against merciless Barbarism and\u003cbr\u003eAutocracy; at her entry into the drama there was joy in English and\u003cbr\u003eFrench hearts, but, I venture to think, a much greater joy in the\u003cbr\u003ehearts of all true Americans. I happened to be in Paris on the\u003cbr\u003ememorable day America declared war, and I shall never forget the\u003cbr\u003edeep-souled enthusiasm of the many Americans it was my privilege to\u003cbr\u003eknow there. America, the greatest democracy in the world, had at last\u003cbr\u003etaken her stand on the side of Freedom, Justice and Humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs an Englishman, I love and am proud of my country, and, in the\u003cbr\u003eyears I spent in America, I saw with pain and deep regret the\u003cbr\u003emisunderstanding that existed between these two great nations. In\u003cbr\u003eAmerica I beheld a people young, ardent, indomitable, full of the\u003cbr\u003eunconquerable spirit of Youth, and I thought of that older country\u003cbr\u003eacross the seas, so little understanding and so little understood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd often I thought if it were only possible to work a miracle, if it\u003cbr\u003ewere only possible for the mists of jealousy and ill-feeling, or\u003cbr\u003erivalry and misconception to be swept away once and for all--if only\u003cbr\u003ethese two great nations could be bonded together by a common ideal,\u003cbr\u003eheart to heart and hand to hand, for the good of Humanity, what\u003cbr\u003eearthly power should ever be able to withstand their united strength.\u003cbr\u003eIn my soul I knew that the false teaching of history--that great\u003cbr\u003eobstacle to the progress of the world--was one of the underlying\u003cbr\u003ecauses of the misunderstanding, but it was an American Ambassador who\u003cbr\u003eput this into words. If, said he, America did not understand the aims\u003cbr\u003eand hopes of Great Britain, _it was due to the textbooks of history\u003cbr\u003eused in American schools_.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146363650288,"sku":"2940015735024","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015735024","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}