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Excerpt from History of the War: The Battlefield of Europe
As has been intimated, the times possesses unique facilities for supplying a narrative of the kind here indicated. Its staff of foreign correspondents has for years been celebrated for the knowledge and insight into political and social condi tions which. Its members possess. Their efforts have combined to make the foreign pages of the times probably the most accurate review of current foreign affairs published in any paper in Europe. Equally well known are the military and naval correspondents of the times who are, by universal consent, among the most bril liant exponents of their respective subjects.
The services of the special staff of war correspondents now acting for the times in the theatre of war are available for this history. Descriptions of eye witnesses of the actual scenes of battle will be employed in this history. A word should also be said about the maps which appear in the present work. They are in all cases specially designed to illustrate the immediate points under review at the moment, and special pains have been taken to secure their accuracy in every particular.
It is, 'for obvious reasons, impossible that a history of contemporary events, many of the most of which are Shrouded in the fog of war, can lay claims to the fullness of information, and consequently the stability of judgment, which are within reach of a historian writing many years after the events have taken place. But it is the endeavor of the writer of this history to approximate as nearly as may be to the historical standard attainable in ordinary circumstances, and so far as the conditions allow to present a faithful record of the impressions of the time, and of the progress of the struggle which is the subject of their narrative. The times aims to lay before the public the most accurate and complete account of the war that will for a long time be available.
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