With the Flagship in the South (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Bean, C. E. W.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from With the Flagship in the South I want the reader to come with me a voyage on a British warship; incidentally to Norfolk Island, Fiji, and Auckland; chiefly to look on at the incessant preparation that is going forward night and day on every British warship in every ocean for some vague future battle. I want him to watch the firing of guns, fighting of battles, the manoeuvres and evolutions which, though make-believe to-day, are carried through with enough of earnestness to give him a picture which he can get in no other way, a picture of the great fight which, Tsushima notwithstanding, has never yet been fought - an equal battle between two big modern fleets. Whether that battle is imminent none can say. Plenty, who will never fight it, are doing their best to make it so. Those who are bringing this Empire and Germany into war think - if ever they do think - that it will go easy for the Empire. Those who will fight it, officers and men too, are not in the least given over to that very foolish mistake. The Navy knows that the German is a magnificent sailor in magnificent ships; and the war would be desperate. Probably it would be utterly needless and wicked. There is trade rivalry. But what can fighting do for the trade except of third parties who do not fight? 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.
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