War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War

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Автор: Wells, Herbert George

Название: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War

Язык: английский

Издательство: L.: N.Y.: Toronto: Melbourne: Cassel and Co., ltd.

Год: 1917

Объем: 297 с.

Формат: pdf

Размер: 177,5 mb

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War and the Future is divided into four parts.

In the first part, entitled "The Passing of the Effigy," Wells argues that "the great man of this war is the common man".

The second part, titled "The War in Italy (August 1916)," describes the city of Udine and the mountain warfare of the Isonzo front as well as visits to Verona, Venice, and Milan.

The third part, "The Western War (September 1916)," describes visits to the Western Front near Arras and Soissons in France.

War and the Future's final part is entitled "How People Think about the War" and addresses a miscellany of subjects: (1) the failure of contemporaries to grasp the nature and causes of the war; (2) the psychology of what he calls "the Yielding Pacifist" (willing to accept any sort of peace), whose origins he finds in "the Resentful Employé," and of "the Conscientious Objector," pages he later deeply regretted; (3) the effect of the war on religious thought; (4) French and Italian doubts about the British; (5) the effect of the war on future labour relations; (6) the prospects for ending the war. On the last subject, Wells saw a possibility of victory in 1917, but allowed that "the war, universally detested, may go on into 1918 or 1919." Wells said that "America should ultimately undertake the responsibility of a world peace settlement.

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