Titre
This Time For Keeps. For the fighter and those he fights for
Auteur
MacCormac, John
Langue
Anglais
Éditeur
Dell Publishing Company NY, Dell Book 32
Prix
€ 16,00(Excl. toute livraison)
Détails
[1943 by Viking] Reprint by Dell [1944], pap. 237pp, 10.5×16cm. Very good: hardly any wear, prob. unread, very minor erosion. (The creases in the spine are there as the book rolled off the printing press.)
Plus d'informations
Book of historical importance, regarding the participation of the US in the Second World War. Printed in Canada, in the first year of paper rationing in the US.
On the front cover: "Why this War is Different".
On the titlepage: "Our enemies know what they want; we have been uncertain and divided. Our enemies are fighting FOR something; we have been fighting AGAINST something. Our enemies have a will to win; we have yet to develop one."
Opposite titlepage: "BOOKS ARE WEAPONS––in a free democracy everyone may read what he likes. Books educate, inform, inspire; they also provide entertainment, bolster morale. This book has been manufactured in conformity with wartime restrictions ..."
More Food For Thought (relevant again in this day and age!):
Challenging Lines from this book––
» We are fighting a total war and are unlikely to win it unless, like our enemies, we give ourselves to it body and soul...
» Courage is not enough. The spirit of let's-fight-and-get-it-over-with is the spirit of watching the clock. Those who have it will soon find themselves up against young fanatics who yearn and thirst for the battle and the victory...
» When this war is over Americans will say “Never again”. But what they will mean is not “Never again will we fight another World War” but “Never again will we let another World War be fought”...
» The dictatorships have taught totalitarianism to their youth like a religion. The democracies have not ever defined democracy for their young men...
» America will not know freedom from fear until this war hos been won...
» We cannot hope to enjoy freedoms at home unless we establish them everywhere in the world. “lf you want to be free, there is but one way: it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.”...
» Unless this war, like the last, is to be merely the beginning of a cycle of hatred, violence, and destruction, our cause must be high, holy, and clearly defined...
» Total war cannot be waged unless the people, sensing that it is their war, make it theirs in their minds and hearts. That could not be said of the American people in 1942 – or 1943...
et cetera
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