Patrick Shaw-Stewart (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Patrick Shaw-Stewart It may be easily thought that the times are too late for War biographies. While the public felt it almost heartless to indulge in any other literature than that bearing on the one subject which prepossessed it, the demand for such biographies was natural. Now that the spectre has passed by, do we do well to linger still over the details of individual lives cut short, instead of burying the very memories of our dead in a cenotaph of common fame? There is more public appetite, perhaps, for Post-War revelations, for the bandying of 'I told you so' and 'Your fault all the time' between public and ex-public characters. But it is to be hoped that there are some who are inclined to tend the ashes of memory in a more generous spirit, and to pause a moment longer before they turn away from the imperfect monuments of a generation that died before its time. They utter no I-told-you-so's, those patient rivals of living greatness, they do not impute fault. They have left to others the two-volume biographies, with index and map. Few of them had the opportunity to play a part which in itself made a story worth the telling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.