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Title: The War After the War

Author: Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Release Date: May 12, 2006 [EBook #18380]

Language: English

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THE WAR AFTER THE WAR

[Illustration: Photograph - (signed) Let freedom win - D Lloyd George]

THE WAR
AFTER THE WAR

BY

ISAAC F. MARCOSSON

CO-AUTHOR OF "CHARLES FROHMAN, MANAGER AND MAN"
AUTHOR OF "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CLOWN," ETC.

NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
TORONTO: S. B. GUNDY : : : MCMXVII

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE RIDGWAY COMPANY

Copyright, 1917,
BY JOHN LANE COMPANY

Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U.S.A.

TO
LORD NORTHCLIFFE
IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION

_FOREWORD_

For nearly three years Europe has been drenched with blood and rent with
bitter strife. Millions of men have been killed or maimed: billions of
dollars in property have gone up in smoke and ruin--all part of the
mighty sacrifice laid on the Altar of the Great War.

This tragic tumult must inevitably subside. The smoke of battle will
clear: the scarred fields will mantle again with springtime verdure: the
fighting hosts will once more find their way to peaceful pursuit. Time
the Healer will wipe out the wounds of war.

The world already wearies of the Crimson Canvas splashed with martial
scene. Heroism has become the most commonplace of qualities: it takes a
monster thrill to move a civilisation sick of destruction. With eager
eye it looks forward to the era of regeneration. War ends some time.

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