WAR AND THE FUTURE: ITALY, FRANCE AND BRITAIN AT WAR

by H. G Wells

$1,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1917. First Edition. A sharp copy of Wells's reluctant work of war propaganda, written after a tour of the fronts during World War I. For my own part I did not want to go. I evaded a suggestion that I should go in 1915. I travel badly, I speak French and Italian with incredible atrocity, and am an extreme Pacifist. I hate soldiering. And also I did not want to write anything under

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