... THIRTY YEARS TO WRITE THE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR I Sir James Edmonds Completes His Record Brigadier-General Sir James E Edmonds has been in charge of the Military Branch, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence, since 1919, and his task has been the writing of the history of World War I. In 1922 came Volume I, the story of the momentous battles of 1914, when Paris so nearly fell, and ...

... THE Brigadier Gerard of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories was a fantastic and yet credible creature, slightly larger than life-size, and the hero of a thousand exploits, related and unrelated, or so we used to feel in the young and happy days when we were reading about him. It is I possible, we now hear, that this magnificent and flamboyant creature had a prototype in real life, and that he was ...