Excerpt from Leaves From an Officer's Notebook For the rest, my reflections and experiences have been those, I suppose, of many others whom war has taken from their familiar occupations and plunged into a new world. I have written them down in the faith that not novelty or sensationalism constitutes the warrant for a book, but sincerity alone. I have been careful to eliminate anything that could even remotely be accused of disclosing secrets to the enemy; and I hope I have been successful in hurting the feelings Of no one - least of all of that body Of Officers and men whom it has been my pleasure and privilege to command, and who have shown no less patience in the long period of waiting than they showed courage an d ability when put to the test of battle. 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.