HORRORS OF WAR
BOOKS SHOW ONLY BAD SIDE WRITER ATTACKS PRINCIPLE Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Friday. General Charteris, the author of “The Life of Haig,” and one of the field-marshal's closest friends, speaking at Greenwich, deprecated the flood of war books and war plays, all of them going out of their way to show all the bad and horrible things about war. “War is bad, horrible,” he said. “Nobody who fought in France will wish to see war again. But a soldier cannot help resentment at book after book showing the bad sides of human nature. Despite its horrors, w? brought out in many ways the great and good things in human nature, and many men returned ennobled.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 868, 11 January 1930, Page 9
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