Excerpt from Guide to Victory In 1936, a third wisp of cloud no bigger than a half-clenched Nazi hand appeared in the European sky, as Hitler goose-stepped to the Rhineland with a hidden fear so strong that his troops car ried secret orders to retreat at the sign of resistance; then grew brash in the feeling that French and British silence came from the graveyard of democracies morally bankrupt, physically flabby and politically dead. These Japanese, German and Italian hands, raised in their respective skies to ask a simple question, closed into full-clenched fists. The wisps of vapor turned to spreading war clouds. The war clouds shot successive bolts of Japanese lightning into China, indo-china, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies; Italian light ning into Ethiopia, Albania and Greece; German lightning into Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Scandinavia, the Balkans, the Low Countries, France, England, and then Russia. Thus Leagued oppression poured to northern wars Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars; Presaging wrath to Poland - and to man! Warsaw's last champion from her height surveyed Wide o'er the fields, a waste of ruin laid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.