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OverviewIn 'The Last Shot', which appeared only a few months before the Great War began, drawing from my experience in many wars, I attempted to describe the character of a conflict between two great European land-powers, such as France and Germany. You were wrong in some ways, a friend writes to me, but in other ways it is almost as if you had written a play and they were following your script and stage business. Wrong as to the duration of the struggle and its bitterness and the atrocious disregard of treaties and the laws of war by one side; right about the part which artillery would play; right in suggesting the stalemate of intrenchments when vast masses of troops occupied the length of a frontier. Had the Germans not gone through Belgium and attacked on the shorter line of the Franco-German boundary, the parallel of fact with that of prediction would have been more complete. As for the ideal of 'The Last Shot', we must await the outcome to see how far it shall be fulfilled by a lasting peace. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Frederick PalmerPublisher: Createspace Imprint: Createspace Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 0.304kg ISBN: 9781499779356ISBN 10: 1499779356 Pages: 124 Publication Date: 04 June 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |