Excerpt from Kultur in Cartoons What we can know is graphically and terribly told by Mr. John Buchan and the witnesses he cites. The highways were black with the panting crowds ladies of fashion, white-haired men and women, wounded soldiers, priests old and young, nuns, mothers, daughters, children, so it was described by one who saw it. More than a quarter of a million of inhabitants left Antwerp in one day. The world has never before seen such an emptying of a great city. Some day, Mr. Buchan ends, when its imagination ...
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Excerpt from Kultur in Cartoons What we can know is graphically and terribly told by Mr. John Buchan and the witnesses he cites. The highways were black with the panting crowds ladies of fashion, white-haired men and women, wounded soldiers, priests old and young, nuns, mothers, daughters, children, so it was described by one who saw it. More than a quarter of a million of inhabitants left Antwerp in one day. The world has never before seen such an emptying of a great city. Some day, Mr. Buchan ends, when its imagination has grown quicker, it will find the essence of war not in gallant charges and heroic stands, but in the pale women dragging their pitiful belongings through the Belgian fields in the raw October night. 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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