The White Morning; a Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime
The book The White Morning; a Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime was written by author Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 Here you can read free online of The White Morning; a Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The White Morning; a Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime a good or bad book?
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Like all the other women who had nursed near the front and knew the truth, they translated into their own cynical vernacular such grandi- ose collocations as * * Strategic retreats ' ' from that of the Battle of the Marne to those which had been occurring periodically on the West- ern front since the beginning of the Somme offensive of 1916. THE WHITE MORNING 83 Gisela's mind was complex and subtle, but it was also honest. When it yielded a point, it yielded audibly. It was during the pre- limi...nary discussion that she exclaimed : *^It is true — certain things come back to me — Mimi, open the window. The air is blue and we are all hardy and can stand the night air. It was after the Agadir incident that I felt a change. I say felt because I was so absorbed in my work that I had no inclina- tion for world politics and never discussed them. Up to that time I had never heard a hint of war for aggression on the part of Ger- many. . . . While, as far back as I can re- member, it was taken for granted there would be a great war some day, I doubt if any but the military party really believed in it.
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