261:"It's queer about this book—it suddenly made me wonder whether any other book about the War has been written in this country. It's a book of extra-ordinary courage—not the courage of hope but the quiet courage of despair. It will make patriots and romanticists angry—yet it is the kind of patriotism that is hardest and toughest. It ranks at once with the few great cries of protest. It is a selected, partial, bitter picture, but a picture we need. It will live. None of the acts of bravery for which the author was decorated during the War was as brave as this anthology of dismay."
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