England and the War - Softcover

Raleigh, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535354038 ISBN 13: 9781535354035

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

England and the War is a classic World War One history text by Walter Raleigh. The English soldier of today goes into action with the cold courage of a man who is prepared to make the best of a bad job. The German soldier sacrifices himself, in a frenzy of religious exaltation, to the War-God. The filthiness that the Germans use, their deliberate befouling of all that is elegant and gracious and antique, their spitting into the food that is to be eaten by their prisoners, their defiling with ordure the sacred vessels in the churches--all these things, too numerous and too monotonous to describe, are not the instinctive coarsenesses of the brute beast; they are a solemn ritual of filth, religiously practised, by officers no less than by men. The waves of emotional exaltation which from time to time pass over the whole people have the same character, the character of savage religion.

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About the Author:

Sir Walter Raleigh was an English professor, actor, poet and writer. Born in London in 1861, Raleigh studied and lectured on English Literature for most of his life, teaching in India at Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, and at several universities in the United Kingdom, including University College Liverpool, Glasgow University, and Oxford University. At the outset of the First World War, Raleigh changed his career s focus from Romantic era literature and began covering topics relating to the war. Sir Walter Raleigh s best-known work is The War in the Air, which provided coverage on the Royal Air Force s efforts in the war. Raleigh died at the age of 61 from typhoid.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1535354038
• ISBN 13: 9781535354035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96