England and the War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781535354035)

England and the War is a classic World War One history text by Walter Raleigh. The English soldier of today goes into action with the cold courage of a man who is prepared to make the best of a bad job. The German soldier sacrifices himself, in a frenzy of religious exaltation, to the War-God. The filthiness that the Germans use, their deliberate befouling of all that is elegant and gracious and antique, their spitting into the food that is to be eaten by their prisoners, their defiling with ordure the sacred vessels in the churches--all these things, too numerous and too monotonous to describe, are not the instinctive coarsenesses of the brute beast; they are a solemn ritual of filth, religiously practised, by officers no less than by men. The waves of emotional exaltation which from time to time pass over the whole people have the same character, the character of savage religion.

Author: Walter Raleigh
ISBN-10: 1535354038
ISBN-13: 9781535354035
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2016
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20d