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A Traveller in War-Time
Winston Churchill
A Traveller in War-Time
Winston Churchill
Book Excerpt: ...wistfully through his spectacles across the waters. Later, when twilight deepened, when the moon had changed from silver to gold, the orators gave place to a singer. He had been a bootblack in America. Now he had become a bard. His plaintive minor chant evoked, one knew not how, the flavour of that age-long history of oppression and wrong these were now determined to avenge. Their conventional costumes were proof that we had harboured them--almost, indeed, assimilated them. And suddenly they had reverted. They were going to slaughter the Turks. On a bright Saturday afternoon we steamed into the wide mouth of the Gironde, a name stirring vague memories of romance and terror. The French passengers gazed wistfully at the low-lying strip of sand and forest, but our uniformed pilgrims crowded the rail and hailed it as the promised land of self-realization. A richly coloured watering-place slid into view, as in a moving-picture show. There was, indeed, all the reality and unreality of the cinematograph...
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 9 octobre 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798677875021 |
Éditeurs | Independently Published |
Pages | 50 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 3 mm · 86 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
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