War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
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War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War

By H. G. Wells
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Excerpt: "One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the Tour of the Front. After some months of suppressed information—in which even the war correspondent was discouraged to the point of elimination—it was discovered on both sides that this was a struggle in which Opinion was playing a larger and more important part than it had ever done before. This wild spreading weed was perhaps of decisive importance; the Germans at any rate were attempting to make it a cultivated flower. There was Opinion flowering away at home, feeding rankly on rumour; Opinion in neutral countries; Opinion getting into great tangles of misunderstanding and incorrect valuation between the Allies. The confidence and courage of the enemy; the amiability and assistance of the neutral; the zeal, sacrifice, and serenity of the home population; all were affected. The German cultivation of opinion began long before the war; it is still the most systematic and, because of the psychological ineptitude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is certainly the best organisation in existence for making things clear, counteracting hostile suggestion, the British official organisations are comparatively ineffective; but what is lacking officially is very largely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these various attempts of the belligerents to get themselves and their proceedings explained."

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GenreHistory
Length6 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 14, 2020
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1THE PASSING OF THE EFFIGY
10IV. NEW ARMS FOR OLD ONES
2THE WAR IN ITALY (AUGUST, 1916)
11V. TANKS
3I. THE ISONZO FRONT
12HOW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE WAR
4II. THE MOUNTAIN WAR
13I. DO THEY REALLY THINK AT ALL?
5III. BEHIND THE FRONT
14II. THE YIELDING PACIFIST AND THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR
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6THE WESTERN WAR (SEPTEMBER, 1916)
15III. THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL
7I. RUINS
16IV. THE RIDDLE OF THE BRITISH
8II. THE GRADES OF WAR
17V. THE SOCIAL CHANGES IN PROGRESS
9III. THE WAR LANDSCAPE
18VI. THE ENDING OF THE WAR

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