My Virtual Reading Room

"...Wonderful is the atmosphere of the war. When the millennium comes, the world will gain much, but it will lose its greatest thrill."

(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in his autobiography "Memories and Adventures", published in 1924)

...How much the time we live in shapes our views...this, from someone who worked in a field hospital during the Boer war, and had been in the thick of action as well and saw death and carnage and an enteric fever epidemic first hand...from someone who lived to see WWI and the horror that was chemical warfare...