How I Won the War

• Book ID: 126224686
• Publisher: [Côte d’Azur]
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 845 KB
• Category: Standards

✦ Synopsis

The All-Highest have spoken… each General and Field-marshal has published his Memoirs telling how he won the Second World War in spite of all the other Generals and Field-marshals. Brass-hats the world over, compelled by vanity, guilt or a fast buck, have written their volumes of self-justification. We’ve heard from just about everybody who was far enough back from gun-fire to find War a matter of nightly diaries and daily map-dreams. We have listened to the lordly ones whose minds read war in hunting-field phrases, whosetongues speak only in terms of cricket, and whose incarnate hubris could demand for their projects the exclusive services of the Almighty…
· · · Amid the mounting tomes of red-tabbed recollection, it could easily be forgotten that War In Our Time, while remaining the study of the military, has, unfortunately, become the practice of the civilian. Perhaps it is time to hear, notfrom the planners, butfrom the planned; to move beyond the General’s brilliant appreciations of non-existent situations, to go right up those big, black, splendid arrows to the sharp end where the Staff College left off, the scrap-iron started flying about and most of the soldiers were Heavily-Armed Civilians. Perhaps the hour has come for one of them to speak… for Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody—in peace, corn-chandler’s chief clerk; at war, Commander of Twelve Platoon, The Fourth Musketeers—to raise his voice among the Viscounts’ self-trumpets, to release his Memoirs atid speak out, at last, for all those millions of Heavily-Armed Civilians who both won and lost the Second World War.

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