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A carregar... My Four Years in Germany (1917)por James W. Gerard
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I thought this would be very dry reading and that I would quit very quickly. I bought the book because I love hardcover books. I was wrong about the subject and the writer. It was a personal look into the time leading up to and just after the start of WWI by the US ambassador during that time. I learned more about WWI and the German geography than I had known before. I had questions answered and learned things I didn't even know to ask. Although, there was some dry reading but the content was enough to keep my attention. The writer, who was the ambassador at the time, states from the beginning that the book is not a recount of the stuff already in history books and readily available in US State Department collections. I recommended it to an Economics college professor. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
James Gerard (1867 - 1951) went to law school in New York and then ran in several political elections and served on the New York Supreme Court. Under President Wilson he served as Ambassador to the German Imperial Court from 1913 to 1917. When the United States entered the war Gerard returned to the United States to practice law. He wrote two books about his experiences in Germany "My Four Years in Germany" released in 1917 and the following year, "Face to Face with Kaiserism. Gerard wanted Americans to understand the magnitude of the war. He began his preface with these words. "I want to bring home to our people the gravity of the situation; because I want to tell them that the military and naval power of the German Empire is unbroken; that of the twelve million men whom the Kaiser has called to the colours but one million, five hundred thousand have been killed, five hundred thousand permanently disabled, not more than five hundred thousand are prisoners of war, and about five hundred thousand constitute the number of wounded or those on the sick list of each day, leaving at all times about nine million effectives under arms. " Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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