The Great War - Cyril Falls epub torrent

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From the Preface;
When I had made good progress on this history I confided to a few friends what I was doing. They differed in age and interests, but all asked in virtually the same words: “What’s your thesis?” I was taken aback. I had not started with a thesis consciously in mind. I was, as I always had been, intensely interested in the subject. Having devoted to its study some twenty years of my life, not counting my modest participation in it, I could not doubt that I knew more about it than most. I hoped that a fair number of survivors would welcome a condensed account in what I trusted would be readable form, and that younger people would echo Southey’s young Peterkin with:
Now tell us all about the war,
And what they fought each other for.
Before long I felt gratitude to those who had asked the question. They had helped me to clear my own mind. I began to realize that there had always been a thesis at the back of it. I wanted to show what the war had meant to my generation, so large a part of which — and so much of the best at that — lost their lives in it. I wanted to commemorate the spirit in which these men served and fought. The modern intellectual is inclined to look upon the ardour with which they went to war with impatience. To him it is obsolete. If so, I must be obsolete too. Looking back, the intensity, and I dare add the purity, of that spirit still moves me deeply. I speak particularly of the combatants, including leaders and staffs. In the circumstances of that war a large proportion of men in uniform might almost as well have been company directors, clerks, grocers’ assistants, or street cleaners at home, for the most part useful, but martial only in appearance and not always even that.