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The Ways of War

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The Ways of War

By Tom Kettle, Mary Sheehy Kettle

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The Ways of War

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Tom Kettle, an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, war poet, soldier and Home Rule politician joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Tom was enlisted for service in the British Army, with which he was killed in action on the Western Front in the Autumn of 1916. The Ways of War is Kettle's autobiographical work which is based on the letters he was sending from the battlefield to his wife Mary. Kettle was one of the most brilliant figures both in the Young Ireland and Young Europe of his time. The opening chapters of the book reveal him as a Nationalist concerned about the liberty not only of Ireland but of every nation, small and great. After the chapters describing the inevitable sympathy of an Irishman with Serbia and Belgium—little nations attacked by two Imperial bullies—comes an account of the tragic scenes Kettle himself witnessed in Belgium, where he served as a war-correspondent in the early days of the war. The book closes with "Trade or Honour?"—an appeal to the Allies to preserve high and disinterested motives in ending the war as in beginning it, and to turn a deaf ear to those political hucksters to whom gain means more than freedom. Thus "The Ways of War" is a book, not only of patriotism, but of international idealism. Above all, it is a passionate human document—the "apologia pro vita sua" of a soldier who died for freedom.

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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics

Length6 hrs 12 mins

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Publish dateMar 17, 2021

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1PREFATORY NOTE

15“G.H.Q.”

2MEMOIR

16“ZUR ERINNERUNG” A LETTER TO AN AUSTRIAN FELLOW-STUDENT

3WHY IRELAND FOUGHT

17SILHOUETTES FROM THE FRONT

4I. Prelude

18I. The Way to the Trenches

5II. The Bullying of Serbia

19II. The Long Endurance

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6III. The Crime Against Belgium

20III. Rhapsody on Rats

7UNDER THE HEEL OF THE HUN

21THE NEW FRANCE

8I. A World Adrift

22THE SOLDIER-PRIESTS OF FRANCE

9II. “Europe against the Barbarians”

23THE GOSPEL OF THE DEVIL

10III. Termonde

24I. Bismarck

11IV. Malines

25II. Nietzsche

12V. In Ostend

26III. Treitschke and the Professors

13TREATING BELGIUM DECENTLY

27TRADE OR HONOUR?

14BELGIUM IN PEACE WORK OF THREE GENERATIONS—COMPARISONS WITH IRELAND—SOME MEMORIES

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