Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from With Silent Friends
To write a new Author's Preface to this, the nineteenth impression, of my little book, fills my heart with pride - pardonable pride, I hope. It brings back vividly to my mind the day in November 1917 when the book was first issued from a little printing establishment - a literary "first-born," with every chance of being "still-born" as well. Its immediate success was the biggest - and, need I state? - the most pleasant surprise in all my life. It has given me friends in all parts of the world - and for this friendship I am, and shall always be,
eternally grateful.
While revising the book for the present new edition, however, I was suddenly faced by the fact that the War was throughout referred to in the present tense. What was I to do? To write of it in the past tense would mean practically to re-write every single page. So - apologizing to my readers - I have allowed the text, in this respect, to stand as it was first printed. The Great War is over - thank God! But the memory of it in the minds of those who lived through those tragic years - will surely never be forgotten. Its lessons are as important to-day as they were during the actual world-conflict Peace., alas!
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