... our listening grandchildren, until we publish all our tea-party twaddle in two large green volumes under the title The Second World War: Personal Experiences. And then there will be another Colonel in the field. But it hasn't been (historically) a bad ...

... BRITAIN won the first world war for the Allied Powers by using her navy to starve out the Central Powers. She lost the second world war when the Germans, under a new war leader, used mass-produced sub marines and aircraft in unexampled numbers to blockade ...

... As to gas, although it would be entirely unsafe to presume that this will not be used in the unfortunate event of a second world war, there is one fact to which I think it worth while to direct attention, and it is this that neither in Spain nor in the ...

... wouldn't reach him until Tuesday- evening or Wednesday morning. Four days gone But those were the days of the shadow of the second world war. All the nations arming like fury. Conscription in England. Over six hundred millions for arms in the budget that year ...

... warning. At last the trains ran again, and the men were charged the excess fares. I swear that I am the first man in the second world war to hear two classics. War broke out at 11 a.m. At 11. 10 a dignified, elderly gent, said, No, sir, I will not take cover ...

... incident that the marriage of Field-Marshal von Blomberg to a short hand-typist should have been largely responsible for the second world war. This is, at any rate, the view of Sir Nevile Henderson, our late Ambassador in Berlin. It was this marriage which p ...

... 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 ...

... elsewhere. But while the first World War struck a cruel blow at the noblest of all indoor games, it may well be that the second World War will kill it almost entirely. Courts are closing down, and professionals are forced to seek a livelihood elsewhere, and ...

... comfortable as they were in peacetime. The big shots in the world of military history are already busy on histories of the second World War, prominent among them being Commander King- Hall and Sir Ronald Storrs. But I can not help feeling that there is also ...

... three great empires Romanoff, Hohenzollern and Hapsburg collapsed, and the belligerents came to full strength slowly. The second world war, incubated in the first, and now emerging in clearer outline from the smoke and flame of the Allied-German war (which ...

... weeping, laughed. But if one examines the phenomenon more closely, one finds that it was not born in the explosion of the second world war. It was incubating long before Munich. It came gradually but decisively, like the stream lines which distinguish our ...

... 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 ...