War and the Future
Book Excerpt: ...m in a torrent. The great man of this war is the common man. It becomes ridiculous to pick out particular names. There are too many true stories of splendid acts in the past two years ever to be properly set down. The V.C.'s and the palms do but indicate samples. One would need an encyclopaedia, a row of volumes, of the gloriousness of human impulses. The acts of the small men in this war dwarf all the pretensions of the Great Man. Imperatively these multitudinous heroes forbid the setting up of effigies. When I was a young man I imitated Swift and posed for cynicism; I will confess that now at fifty and greatly helped by this war, I have fallen in love with mankind.But if I had to pick out a single figure to stand for the finest quality of the Allies' war, I should I think choose the figure of General Joffre. He is something new in history. He is leadership without vulgar ambition. He is the extreme antithesis to the Imperial boomster of Berlin. He is as it were the ordinary common sense of men, inca...
yazar | H G Wells |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 0.97 x 22.86 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 20 Eylül 2020 |
25 Eylül 2020 25 Ağustos 2020 George R. R. Martin 13.97 x 0.18 x 21.59 cm 13.97 x 0.15 x 21.59 cm H. G. Wells 13.97 x 2.08 x 21.59 cm 15.24 x 0.97 x 22.86 cm J. R. R. Tolkien 13.97 x 1.8 x 21.59 cm 20 Eylül 2020 L. Frank Baum 14 Eylül 2020 1 Ekim 2020 13.97 x 0.25 x 21.59 cm J. K. Rowling 29 Ekim 2020 Edgar Rice Burroughs
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yazar | H G Wells |
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isbn 13 | 979-8680230589 |
Yayımcı | Independently Published |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 0.97 x 22.86 cm |
DE OLDUĞU GİBİ | B08JF2DKJN |
Tarafından yayınlandı War and the Future | 20 Eylül 2020 |