"What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War" by H. G. Wells. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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H. G. Wells. What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War
What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War
Table of Contents
I. FORECASTING THE FUTURE
III. NATIONS IN LIQUIDATION
IV. BRAINTREE, BOCKING, AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD
V. HOW FAR WILL EUROPE GO TOWARD SOCIALISM?
VI. LAWYER AND PRESS
VII. THE NEW EDUCATION
VIII. WHAT THE WAR IS DOING FOR WOMEN
Section 1
IX. THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE
Section 1
Section 2
X. THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA
Section 1
Section 2
XI. "THE WHITE MAN'S BURTHEN"
XII. THE OUTLOOK FOR THE GERMANS
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
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H. G. Wells
Published by Good Press, 2019
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For long weeks the Allies retreated out of the west of Belgium, out of the north of France, and for rather over a month there was a loose mobile war--as if Bloch had never existed. The Germans were not fighting the 1914 pattern of war, they were fighting the 1899 pattern of war, in which direct attack, outflanking and so on were still supposed to be possible; they were fighting confident in their overwhelming numbers, in their prepared surprise, in the unthought-out methods of their opponents. In the "Victorian" war that ended in the middle of September, 1914, they delivered their blow, they over-reached, they were successfully counter-attacked on the Marne, and then abruptly--almost unfairly it seemed to the British sportsmanlike conceptions--they shifted to the game played according to the very latest rules of 1914. The war did not come up to date until the battle of the Aisne. With that the second act of the great drama began.
I do not believe that the Germans ever thought it would come up to date so soon. I believe they thought that they would hustle the French out of Paris, come right up to the Channel at Calais before the end of 1914, and then entrench, produce the submarine attack and the Zeppelins against England, working from Calais as a base, and that they would end the war before the spring of 1915--with the Allies still a good fifteen years behindhand.
