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... every serious historian of Europe and Britain in the future. It sets out clearly the sequence of events which led to the second world war, and there is really no dispute or doubt remaining any where but in Germany as to the conclusions drawn from them. I ...
... military issue, there never was one. Kaiser Wilhelm II. The ex-Kaiser has not lived to see the end of Germany after the second World War. I fancy his responsibility for the first World War was always exaggerated, just as at one time (in 1912-14) was his ...
... about manners in the conduct of war have completely changed. I accept it that the fearful dangers and stress of this second World War re quired a new fashion, and that the large bulk of the nation endorses the new fashion of bandying hate, threats, boasts ...
... survived for half a century. My children read them as I did. Their memories of the I.L.N. are mine. It took two years of a second World War to bring them to the sack marked Salvage. As an old servant of a younger sister of this hoary centenarian and live-wire ...
... War, and I tasted the fearful, bitter draughts of anxiety and appre hension which followed our major reverses in the Second World War and the wine of our triumphs also yet none of these experiences afforded me one-half of the thrill which I have felt ...
... Madrid, Barcelona and other places stood like bastions against iron-clad columns and swooping sky- raiders alike. The Second World War began with Poland and Warsaw stood for a considerable period after all else had failed. No wonder the Germans dropped ...
... signs in the leaves, in the air, in the sounds and scents of summer. The seasonal mentality of the first autumn of the Second World War is coming upon us again. Those war summers and winters have gone in a flash or, alternatively, according to the mood ...
... calendar provokes the insidiou: discovery that in a few weeks tnori we shall date our letters with 1943, a fourth year of a Second World War in our maturity, announcing to men of fifty that they have given to wars for survival a sixth part of their lives and ...
... counter. A pleasant house, not much noticed in guide-books to Sussex. A house not too large to be workable (up to the Second World War and Economic Revolution), built after a pleasant model of a spacious age. Lord and Lady Wintcrton were living in the ...
... forgotten Russia, or lost sight of the value to humanity of as quick an end as possible to this present spot of trouble the second World War. Let us avoid charging our delays in Africa to political muddles in Algeria, to bungling or lack of pre vision. When ...
... battered the countryside, but the country side had beaten him, and he was down and almost out to the count of ten when the Second World War came. He was not well fitted for country life. He did not appreciate that the landed 'gentry is a noblesse and carries ...
... nment, hard as it might be, then and now, to saddle any individual parent with the guilt of direct complicity in the second world war. They were small children then, and I can still very clearly see a picture of them as they started out in the lovely ...