To the Men Behind the Armies
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from To the Men Behind the Armies: An Address Delivered on February 18, 1917, at the Æolian Hall, at a Meeting of the Fight for Right Movement Ladies and Gentlemen, It is possible that you may remember having seen a reproduction of the drawing by Forain of two French poilus, covered with mud and exposed to an infernal shell-fire. "Let´s hope," says one, "that they´ll hold out." "Who?" asks the other. "Why! the civilians." Not the soldiers in the trenches, lashed by the rain and bitten by the frost, but the civilians, in their snug homes, with their feet upon the hearth; not those at "the front," who, every instant in danger of death and the most horrible mutilations, live the brutal and primitive life of savages; but those "behind," who sleep in beds, eat at well-furnished tables, and enjoy, by comparison, full comfort and security. There is a bitter irony in these words, but at the same time a profound truth. The greater our experience of the present war becomes, the more surely do we grow convinced that the ultimate result will be found to depend as much upon the patriotism of the non-combatants as upon the valour of the Army. 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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