Great Britain’s Part —: Observations Of An American Visitor To The British Army In France At The Beginning Of The Third Year Of The War
()
About this ebook
An interesting political book, passionately argued.
Author — Cravath, Paul D. 1861-1940.
Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company, 1917.
Original Page Count – vi and 127 pages
Paul D. Cravath
See Book Description
Related to Great Britain’s Part —
Related ebooks
Ordnance: Equipping the British Army for the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe French Army in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Nation in Arms: The British Army in the First World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHaig: Master of the Field Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great War Illustrated 1916: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters from Verdun: Frontline Experiences of an American Volunteer in World War I France Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow the Army Made Britain a Global Power, 1688–1815 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Talavera Campaign 1809 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYour Country Needs You: Expansion of the British Army Infantry Divisions, 1914–1918 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Duke of York's Flanders Campaign: Fighting the French Revolution, 1793–1795 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo The Call of Bugles: A History of the Percy Tenantry Volunteers 1798–1814 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Waste of Blood & Treasure: The 1799 Anglo-Russian Invasion of the Netherlands Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wellington: the Bidassoa and Nivelle Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Napoleon's Infantry Handbook Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wellington's Right Hand: Rowland, Viscount Hill Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo So Few -The Trial Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5American Expeditionary Force: France, 1917–1918 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Officer's Manual of the Western Front: 1914-1918 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIronbridge in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA History of the Peninsula War, Volume II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNapoleon's Infantry: French Line, Light and Foreign Regiments 1799–1815 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNine Divisions in Champagne: The Second Battle of Marne Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBattlefield Integration: Wellington's Use Of Portuguese And Spanish Forces During The 1812 Salamanca Campaign Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
European History For You
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dry: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mein Kampf: English Translation of Mein Kamphf - Mein Kampt - Mein Kamphf Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jane Austen: The Complete Novels Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book: The Script Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Violent Abuse of Women: In 17th and 18th Century Britain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Law Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of English Magic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Victorian Lady's Guide to Fashion and Beauty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Great Britain’s Part —
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Great Britain’s Part — - Paul D. Cravath
This edition is published by PICKLE PARTNERS PUBLISHING—www.picklepartnerspublishing.com
To join our mailing list for new titles or for issues with our books – contact@picklepartnerspublishing.com
Text originally published in 1917 under the same title.
© Pickle Partners Publishing 2013, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.
Publisher’s Note
Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.
We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.
GREAT BRITAIN’S PART
OBSERVATIONS OF AN AMERICAN VISITOR TO THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR
BY
PAUL D. CRAVATH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
PREFACE 5
I 6
II 6
III 7
IV 8
V 9
VI 11
VII 14
VIII 15
IX 16
X 17
XI 19
XII 20
XIII 21
PREFACE
THE following observations were prepared for the New York Times, in which they first appeared. I have acquiesced in the suggestion that they be published, in the hope that they may aid a few Americans to a better appreciation of the greatness of England’s achievements in the European War. I instinctively hesitate to write about France, because her appeal to the sympathy and admiration of the civilized world is so direct and dramatic that no words of mine seem adequate for the telling of her story. I cannot help feeling that with England the case is different. The British people and press have so liberally exercised the Englishman’s inalienable right to abuse the government that we in America often hear more of England’s mistakes than of her achievements. As a result, there is, I find, real misapprehension among Americans as to England’s part in the war. It is the hope of doing something towards removing this misapprehension that furnishes the excuse for the publication of these pages.
P. D. C.
February, 1917.
GREAT BRITAIN’S PART
I
AN invitation to visit the British war zone in France came quite unexpectedly after I had spent the greater part of July studying war conditions in England. I had seen a good deal of the British army at home. I had visited recruiting stations, training camps, munition factories, hospitals, and camps for German prisoners. I had heard the conduct of the war discussed from every conceivable angle—in the House of Commons, at public meetings, at the Clubs, around the dinner table, and at the street corner. Indeed, in London, one hears very little else. I had heard as much of criticism as of praise, doubtless because the critic usually has a taste for conversation and leisure to gratify it.
The more I saw of the army that was training in England, the keener became my ambition to see the army that was fighting in France. I had little hope of gratifying this ambition, because I had been told that, since the inauguration of the great Push,
visits to the front by civilians were rarely permitted. Finally some good friends in the war