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War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at w

H. G. Wells

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. . .frostbite have slain and disabled their thousands; they have accounted perhaps for as many Italians in this austere and giddy campaign as the Austrians....

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It seems to be part of the stern resolve of Fate that this, the greatest of wars, shall be the least glorious; it is manifestly being decided not by victories but by blunders. It is indeed a history of colossal stupidities. Among the most decisive of these blunders, second only perhaps of the blunder of the Verdun attack and far outshining the wild raid of the British towards Bagdad, was the blunder of the Trentino offensive. It does not need the equipment of a military expert, it demands only quite ordinary knowledge and average intelligence, to realise the folly of that Austrian adventure. There is some justification for a claim that the decisive battle of the war was fought upon the soil of Italy. There is still more justification for saying that it might have been.

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Community Reviews

This was my first H.G. Wells book I ever read. I read it in college and considering that at the time my family was kind of flirting with fascism. It was nice to know that my utter disgust at such beliefs was not singularly within my heart and mind.

Some call it propaganda, but it's interesting work from the author of The Time Machine.

An interesting and surprising little book

This small book covers a lot of territory. It starts with a discussion of how technology dramatically changed war fare. Think about it. Before WWI there were no tanks, airplanes, machine guns and advanced artillery. They changed how wars were fought and how w

Wells gives his commentary on World War II. The connections are difficult to follow at times. This is a series of disjointed essays that have a general theme of World War II. Wells goes off on tangents about religion, leaders and politics. Some of these insights are intriguing but the vast majority

Starts off as a biased bit of patriotic propaganda in the form of a report from the Western front as a journalist sent on a tour. Then it degenerates into the same ideas put forward in his " What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War".

Wells, believes in the goodness of government and the bi