Memories (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Memories Readers of this book will quickly observe that Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher has small faith in the printed word; and those who have enjoyed the privilege of having "his fist shaken in their faces" will readily admit that the printed wordy though faithfully taken down from his dictation must lack a large measure of the power - the "aroma," as he calls it - which his personality lends to his spoken word. Had Lord Fisher been allowed his own way there would have been no Book. Not for the first time in his career, the need of serving his country and his country´s Navy has over-ridden his personal feeling. These "Memories," therefore, must be regarded as a compromise ("the beastliest word in the English language" - see "The Times" of September 9th, 1919) between the No-Book of Lord Fisher´s inclination and the orderly, complete Autobiography which the public wishes to possess. The book consists in the main of the author´s ipsissima verba, dictated during the month of September, 1919. One or two chapters have been put together from fugitive writings which Lord Fisher had collected and printed in noble and eloquently various type) as a gift to his friends after his death. The discreeter passages of the letters which he wrote to Lord Fisher between 1903 and 1912 illustrate some portions of the life´s work which - caring little for the past and much for the future, much for the idea and little for the fact - Lord Fisher has successfully declined to describe in his own words. 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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