The Last Million: How They Invaded France—and England

The Last Million: How They Invaded France—and England

[Note: The following is the substance of a little Welcome which the author was requested to write to American soldiers and sailors visiting England for the first time during the fateful days of 1918. It was distributed upon the transports and in various American centres in England. Its purpose is to set forth some of our national peculiaritiesand incidentally the authors Confession of Faith. It has no bearing upon the rest of the story, and may be skipped by the reader without compunction.] I write this welcome to you American soldiers and sailors because I know America personally and therefore I know what the word welcome means. And I see right away from the start that it is going to be a difficult proposition for us over here to compete with America in that particular industry. However, we mean to try, and we hope to succeed. Anyway, we shall not fail from lack of good-will. We are very, very short-handed at present. During the past four years the people of the British Isles have contributed to our common cause more than six million soldiers and sailors. On a basis of population, the purely British contribution to the forces of the British Empire should have been seventy-six per cent. The actual contribution has been eighty-four per cent; and when we come to casualties, not eighty-four but eighty-six per[x] cent of the total have been borne by those two little islands, Great Britain and Ireland, which form the cradle of our race. You can, therefore, imagine the strain upon our man-power. Every man up to the age of fifty is now liable to be drafted. The rest of our male populationroughly five millionsare engaged night and day in such occupations as shipbuilding, coal-mining, munition-making, and making two blades of corn grow where one grew before. They are assisted in every department, even in the war zone, by hundreds and thousands of devoted women. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57597
Author: Hay, Ian
Release Date: Jul 28, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English