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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. 1929 edition. Please use photographs to ascertain condition.

About the book >.>.> Its honesty however lends this book a further attrac- tion. The young student of nineteen who entered the German Army of his own free will before the War was a year old and ‘stuck it’ in spite of twenty wounds and the usual disillusionment that we all experienced displays the truly adventurous spirit. He is a real schoolboy childishly delighted with life forgivably boasting of his drinking capacity. He is no more brutal or insensitive than any other explorer Arctic or Equatorial. He snipes at English Tommies or French poilus and na?vely claims to have hit them in a spirit of sportsmanship which contains no sting for us because we know the inevitable end. The remarkable thing is that perhaps on account of youth perhaps because of German over-training possibly because of some per- sonal quality he never seems to see that the end was inevitable. He had no conception of himself as the man of violence so familiar in Holy Writ or classic story. He must have been astonished to find himself described as a ‘Hun.’ There was nothing petty or mean about his deliberate destruction of property in the German retreat of 1917. It was part of the game. (SP)