City of Endless Night (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781421844770)

When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my present knowledge, I better comprehend the docile humility and carefully nurtured ignorance of this man. In his class rooms he used as a text a description of German life, taken from the captured submarine. From this book he had secured his own conception of a civilization of which he really knew practically nothing. I recall how we used to ask Herr Meineke if he had actually seen those strange things of which he taught us. To this he always made answer, "The book is official, man's observation errs."

Author: Hastings Milo Hastings,Milo Hastings
ISBN-10: 142184477X
ISBN-13: 9781421844770
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2007
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d