Excerpt from Dearer Than Life: A Romance of the Great War The happenings at the little town of Aerschot in Belgium may seem to a e no direct connection with the story I have to tell, but because in reality they vitally influenced the lives of two people, who were the main actors in this drama, I set them down here. In the main these happenings have been told to the world, but so many things have been published broadcast during these last months that they are in danger of being forgotten. When scene after scene & ...
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Excerpt from Dearer Than Life: A Romance of the Great War The happenings at the little town of Aerschot in Belgium may seem to a e no direct connection with the story I have to tell, but because in reality they vitally influenced the lives of two people, who were the main actors in this drama, I set them down here. In the main these happenings have been told to the world, but so many things have been published broadcast during these last months that they are in danger of being forgotten. When scene after scene flashes with lightning speed across the stage of human life, one is in danger of forgetting the first in the Vividness of the last. The tragedy of Aerschot took place early ln August 1914. It has passed into history now - and although it did not seize on the imagination of the world so strongly as did the fate of Louvain and Malines, which are only a few miles away, it is among the ghastliest in the record of even German crime and outrage. The Germans had violated their oath, they had trodden their plighted word under foot. Their promise to respect the neutrality of Belgium was only' a scrap of paper, ' and this scrap of paper they tore in pieces. 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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