Excerpt from The Uncivil War NE of the main reasons why America has had such a hard time getting into this war, said my friend, thoughtfully, is that, when they started the present world conflict, the Germans sprung on humanity an entirely new kind of war. And one so amazingly different from any war with which Americans had ever been connected that for a long time they didn't believe what they were seeing was really so - like the farmer who gazing upon a giraffe for the first time, waggled his head and remarked, weakly, 'go on! There ain't no such animal! Up to August, he went on, war had been a very simple and elementary sort of affair, much like a fist fight, on a large scale. Two nations got sore at each other. And bango! They went at it, horse, foot and dragons; fist, feet and paving blocks; no holds barred and the devil take the undermost! 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.