True Stories of the Great War, Volume 1 (of 6)

True Stories of the Great War, Volume 1 (of 6) - Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses

Thirty million soldiers, each living a great human storythis is the real drama of the Great War as it is being written into the hearts and memories of the men at the front. If these soldiers could be gathered around one camp-fire, and each soldier could relate the most thrilling moment of his experiencewhat stories we would hear! "Don Quixote," the "Arabian Nights," Dante's "Inferno," Milton's "Paradise Lost, and Regained"all the legends and tales of the world's literature out-told by the soldiers themselves. It is from the lips of these soldiers, and those who have passed through the tragedy of the warthe women and children whose eyes have beheld the inferno and whose souls have been uplifted by suffering and self-sacrificethe generations will hear the epic of the days when millions of men gave their lives to "make the world safe for Democracy." The magnitude of this gigantic struggle against autocracy is such that human imagination cannot visualize itit requires one to stand face to face with death itself. A member of the British War Staff estimates that more than a million letters a day are passing from the trenches and bases of the various armies "to the folk back home." Another observer at the General Headquarters of one of the armies estimates that more than a million and a half diaries are being kept by the soldiers.[ii] It is in these words, inscribed by bleeding bodies and suffering hearts, that posterity is to hear True Stories of the Great War. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 48663
Author: Miller, Francis Trevelyan
Release Date: Apr 7, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959