The Other War (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Other WarThis little book is dedicated with the consent of my collaborators to the memory of a young Englishman whose promise was as great in his own unusual sphere as any of those gifted boys Julian Grenfell, Charles Lister, Rupert Brooke, Dixon Scott, J. L. Johnstone, and a host of unforgettable others. Birchall was in a true sense a type a type of that same kind that saw vividly the horror and futility of war and joined the army in the first days of Angust, 1914, out of a sense of sheer duty, without any illusions about the joy of battle, and certainly without any emotional exaltation. He had always been a keen Territorial officer from the same conception of duty, since his Magdalen days, and he was quite ready. But the whole bent of his mind and heart was towards the works of peace. He had inherited what he thought was a more than sufficient patrimony, and was eager to give it back again to the other fellows who had made it for him. This sense of debt to the less fortunately placed inspired all his work in the Guilds of Help and the Agenda Club. It was singularly devoted work. I came to know him as men only get to know each other in a difficult job of work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.