Excerpt from The Coming Victory: A Speech Made by General Smuts on October 4, 1917 Take the Western front, where the flower of the German army is gathered to-day. One continuous retirement has been proceeding from the summer of last year, very slow, but very sure. Verdun, Champagne, Vimy, Arras, Mes sines, and so on. On that almost immovable line the manhood of Germany is slowly bleeding to death, and a tragedy of slaughter is being enacted which probably has no parallel in the history of the world. It is no question ...
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Excerpt from The Coming Victory: A Speech Made by General Smuts on October 4, 1917 Take the Western front, where the flower of the German army is gathered to-day. One continuous retirement has been proceeding from the summer of last year, very slow, but very sure. Verdun, Champagne, Vimy, Arras, Mes sines, and so on. On that almost immovable line the manhood of Germany is slowly bleeding to death, and a tragedy of slaughter is being enacted which probably has no parallel in the history of the world. It is no question of great pushes. A war of machinery is largely immobile in nature. The movements are slow, but the results are all the more terrible and crushing. To defeat Germany we_, need not advance to the Rhine nor to her frontiers. One strip of country is as good as another if they will only make a stand. I assure you that long before we have reached the German frontier or the line of the Rhine Germany will have sued for peace. Our military predominance on that front is no longer in question, and remember that it was on that very issue of military predominance that Germany challenged the whole world in August, 1914. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Add this copy of The Coming Victory: a Speech Made By General Smuts on to cart. $42.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1917 by Hodder and Stoughton.
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Very Good. First edition. 12pp. Stapled wrappers. Moderately age-toned, small chip on rear wrapper foredges, a very good copy. Slip laid in: "With the compliments of Professor W. Macneile Dixon."
Add this copy of The Coming Victory to cart. $38.47, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1917 by Hodder & Stoughton.
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VG but for age toning. Ivory paper wraps, stapled, with black lettering and illustration of General Smuts; 12 pp. Text of the speech given by General Smuts on October 4, 1917, called "a bracing tonic" by the Daily Telegraph. Smuts delivered his conviction that the war already was won by the Allies. The text is interspersed with (hear, hear) and (Cheers) in spots where the audience responded.
