The Problems of the Coming Peace (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mlynarski, Felix

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ISBN 10: 1330480082 ISBN 13: 9781330480083

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The sacrifices caused by the present war are enormous. The first nine months have cost the warring nations five millions in killed and wounded, not including those who were taken prisoners.* During the same period the expenditures of the principal warring nations amounted to Thousands of villages and cities were reduced to ruins; all that were spared by the artillery fire were de stroyed by trench digging; these were the traces which the hurricane of war left behind when it swept the country side. Famine, misery, contagious diseases followed the warring armies as jackals follow a caravan. The prosperity of nations which were leaders in civilizatory work has been ruined; ruined was also the happiness of millions of families from whom the war tore away father, husband and brother. Who will tell how many tears have been shed? Who will describe the suffering and the agony?

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There are two examples in history which could be compared with the present European war. They are: the struggle between Rome and Carthago and the war of England against Napoleon. The ancient Carthago is the England of our day; Rome of yore is the present Germany. These were the wars of the greatest power on land with the greatest power on the seas. Only the conflagration of Carthago, when its walls crumbled under the pressure of the Roman legions and centuries later the burning down of Moscow, the smoking ruins of which broke Napoleon's sword, can be compared with the political importance of the present war. This war has deep reasons, employs frightful means, and it is bound to yield most important results.

No comparison in history can be found for the way in which the present war is conducted. No longer armies are facing each other as was the case in former years, but entire nations are lined up against each other in battle array. No longer thousands are fighting, but millions. There is no longer such a thing as a decisive battle in which one attack is able to crush the enemy. The present efforts present something rather superhuman; the individual becomes drowned in the mass of armies of millions of men, having no possibility of overlooking battles fought over hundreds of miles and lasting for months. The soldier becomes an ant rather than an eagle. His consciousness does not seem to exceed the consciousness of a cell in the midst of an organism.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330480082
• ISBN 13: 9781330480083
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178