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Lord Northcliffe's war book, with chapters on America at war

Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe · 1917 · Scanned text · Free in the US

62,236 words · about 4 h 21 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1917, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/18000501); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe
Language
English
Published
1917
Length
62,236 words · about 4 h 21 min
Sections
6 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (6)
  1. Preface under 1 min
  2. Contents about 3 h 32 min
  3. I about 5 min
  4. III under 1 min
  5. IV. I have much pleasure in informing you that under 1 min
  6. V. September 14th, 1916 about 43 min
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Preface

This little contribution to the funds of the Red Cross has already earned between $25,000 and $30,000, the publishers having generously given the profits to this best of causes.

The profits of this American edition will be devoted to the American Red Cross,

The book is the result of many visits to the Western War Fronts and neutral countries. The chapters are very largely composed of telegrams written amidst the "alarums and excursions" of war.

NORTHCLIFFE.

BRITISH WAR MISSION 671 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK.

October, 1917.

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