Great new book for you war and history buffs

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/laurence-m-vance/a-dramatic-wound-to-civiliation-itself/

Page 267, Beatty mentions that “an average of nine hundred Frenchmen and thirteen hundred Germans died every day of the war.” Again, how could any sane man let this carnage continue year after year? We should applaud draft dodgers and soldiers on either side who refused to fight or deserted instead of vilifying them as cowards. They are the only sane men in this war.

Page 272, Beatty writes: “Britons did not learn until after the war of Allied catastrophes like the loss of three hundred thousand French soldiers in August 1914 nor of the annihilation of three Russian army corps at Tannenberg.” Yet, “the Defence of the Realm Act, which banned the publication of information useful to the enemy, including weather reports and chess problems, was superfluous.” The press censored itself, publishing only “selective truth” and leaving out the “horrors.” The press did the bidding of the regime. Nothing has changed.

Page 273-274, Beatty notes that although 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Somme, the Daily Chronicle reported: “It is, on balance, a good day for the British and French.” It was, in fact, the “worst day in the history of the British army.”

Page 274, Beatty quotes from a 1917 letter of Lloyd George to a friend: “The thing is horrible and beyond human nature to bear. . . . If people really knew, the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don’t know and they can’t know. The correspondents don’t write and the censors would not print the truth.”