The Daily News Correspondence Of The War Between Germany And France 1870 1

Excerpt from The Daily News Correspondence of the War Between Germany and France: 1870-1 This volume owes its origin to a desire very generally expressed that the letters of which it is composed, treating of events among the most momentous of any in the memory of this generation, should have a record at once more permanent and more convenient than the files of a daily journal. The special value of letters from camps and battle-fields consists in the vividness with which they reproduce the life and spirit of the scenes and transactions in the midst of which they are written. In the letters which have appeared in the Daily News since the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war, the public has recognized this quality as present in an eminent degree. Their authors, in assenting to the issue of this selection from their correspondence, do not renounce their right severally to publish the entire product of their labours in other forms. The duties of a Newspaper Correspondent with an army are performed day by day in the lace of difficulties and dangers only inferior to those of the enrolled combatant. They are, however, discharged with a cheerful patience, which is sustained by the knowledge that the British public - the most exacting in Europe in its demand for intelligence - honours those whose zeal and enterprise secure to it information earlier, fuller, and often more worthy of credit, than that which the courts and cabinets of Europe can command. In the present volume tho story of the war is related from its Declaration, in tho summer of 1870, to the conclusion of a peace crowned by the occupation of Paris. The brilliant triumph of the Germans, and its influence upon civilization, have yet to be tested by time, which, it may be hoped, notwithstanding much that is discouraging, will heal the wounds inflicted on France. Our aim has not been to anticipate the verdict of history, but to present in due order a series of life-like pictures of some of the greatest military events of this century. 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.