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The value of war,
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This review is from: A Traveller in War-Time (Kindle Edition)
The author is the well-known (in his time) American novelist, not the English politician. The book is a short (about 70-80 pages) report on his brief visit to Britain and France shortly after the U.S. entered WWI but before American troops were fully engaged. The idea was to give the American public an impression of what it was like "over there".
While giving war's calamities their due, he nonetheless projects considered approval of the war, if it had to happen, as a progressive force -- for democracy, egalitarianism, and women's emancipation -- and as one for self-realization: giving people a purpose to their lives. War is even a force for environmentalism: there is an admiring sketch of a recycling (then called "reclamation") plant in the war zone. There is no clear organizing principle, not even a chronological one; it just jumps from one vignette to the next. Note that there are some quotations missing from the text of the free version (but, oddly enough, not in the Kindle version at Project Gutenberg). |
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A Traveller In War Time by Winston Churchill (Paperback - September 1, 2004)
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