... but at present barred spaces of the world-- such issues, which so many believe (I do) are inevitably bound to lead to a second World War, perhaps in the third quarter of this century, belong to a category which can well be docketed for the nonce. (On the ...

... 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 ...

... the Spanish Civil War, and of the events which led up to it. If the statement be accepted that the first battle of the second World War was the Civil War in Spain (and there are few to-day who would even attempt to argue it), this book must be said to have ...

... 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 ...

... brutality. Weighing hope with knowledge, one must assume that nearly 40,000 of the Empire's armies have so far died in the second World War about 45,000 have been wounded, and that of about a further 12,000 it can only be said that they are missing, and that ...

... 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 ...