World War I
That is the question which Mrs. Ward, replying to some doubts and queries of an American friend, has undertaken to answer in this series of letters, and every one who reads them will admit that her answer is as complete and triumphant as it is thrilling. Nobody but a woman, an...
It was with this railway-station canteen that my latest memories of the great base are concerned. All the afternoon of our second day at ---- was spent in seeing a fine Red Cros...
4. Chapter 4Of course, there has been friction and difficulty; nor is it all yet at an end. In the few danger-spots of the country, where heads are hottest, where thousands of the men of mo...
1. Chapter 1That is the question which Mrs. Ward, replying to some doubts and queries of an American friend, has undertaken to answer in this series of letters, and every one who reads them...
2. Chapter 2In the village where they stopped, some forty miles from the actual front, a special messenger from the general headquarters brings the amazing news that General Headquarters in...
3. Chapter 3And yet--was it after all so slow? The day after war was declared the Prime Minister asked Parliament to authorise the addition of half a million of men to the Army, and a first...
5. Chapter 5It has turned the electroplate workshops of the town on to making steel helmets, and in general has been "working in" the smaller engineering concerns so as to make them feed th...
11. Chapter 11But how they crowd upon the mind--the "unreturning brave"! Take our friends and neighbours in this quiet Hertfordshire country. All round us the blows have fallen--again and aga...
6. Chapter 6But here are some of the figures that can be given. The shop area of the ammunition shops alone has been increased _eightfold_ since the outbreak of war. The total weight of she...
12. Chapter 12But to-day! Those great empty workshops that I saw in February, in the making, or the furnishing, are now full of workers and machines; and thousands like them all over the coun...
7. Chapter 7You point to our recruiting difficulties in Parliament. True enough. We have our recruiting difficulties still. Lord Derby has not apparently solved the riddle; for riddle it is...
9. Chapter 9Meanwhile, the artillery fire was quickening. We reached a ruined village from which all normal inhabitants had been long since cleared away. The shattered church was there, and...
10. Chapter 10The temper of the nation? In this last letter let me take some samples of it. First--what have the rich been doing? As to money, the figures of the income-tax, the death-duties,...
13. Chapter 13The 1st of July dawned, a beautiful summer morning, with light mists dispersing under the sun. Precisely to the moment, at 7.30 A.M., the Allied artillery lifted their guns, cre...