Mildred Aldrich eBooks
eBooks di Mildred Aldrich editi da Forgotten Books
The Peak of the Load: The Waiting Months on the Hilltop From the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes to the Second Victory on the Marne. E-book. Formato PDF Mildred Aldrich - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Personally, after the uplift the decision gave me, came a total collapse and I had some pretty black days. I had to fight against the fear that we were too late, and the conviction that, if we were really to do our part at the front, the war was still to last not one year but years. An army cannot be created in a day, and the best will in the world, and all the pluck I know our lads to have, will not make them, inside of at least a year, into a fighting army fit to stand against the military science of Germany, and do anything more service able than die like heroes. Besides, no matter from what point of View one looks at the case, it does make a difference to think that our boys are coming over here to go into this holocaust.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home. E-book. Formato PDF Mildred Aldrich - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The Peak of the Load were edited, no one over here had any hope that the order cease firing would be given on the western front before the spring of 1919. Otherwise that book would have been held back until after the armistice. It had been my intention when the fighting on this front ended so prematurely, to publish none of the letters written to the States after the cessation of hostilities, for the reason that there was no longer any war activity here, and the war activity had been their sole excuse. Here, the country side settled down at once to an outward calm rarely disturbed by anything in the least warlike,-that is, anything which it seemed to me could make the smallest appeal to even the friends old and new, who had received three books with such touching and outspoken sympathy, and whose whole thought, I was convinced, was al ready turned to larger events unrolling in other places, beside which our simple life could make no call.