ANOTHER WAR BOOK

Marlborough Express, Volume LIIII, Issue 83, 9 April 1920, Page 5

ANOTHER WAR BOOK

HINDENBURG'S VIEWS

GERMANY "LORD OF THE

BATTLEFIELD."

STIRRING CALL TO YOUNG MEN

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(Received April 8, 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, April 8. Hindenburg's book, "Out of My Life," is mainly concerned with the operations on the East Front, where ho was commander-in-chief till, 1916. He takes the Junker view that England was mainly blamable for the war owing to her commercial jealousy, but says that the war was also due to French Chauvinism and Russian greed. He regards Germany as lord of the battlefield, though he admits that great deterioration took place in the later years of the war.

The French were, he says, better fighters than the English, and their artillery .was responsible for the worst crisis. The elite of the English army were the Colonial troops. The Americans were brave, but unskilfully led. Hindenburg pays an indirect tribute to the Australians in justifying Germany's assistance to Turkey, because the combined armies "kept 100,000 of the finest enemy troops away from the European fronts." He mentions the Villers Bretonneux reverse as finally destroying Germany's hopes of a decisive victory. Finally, he regards the attack on August Bth, as Ludendorff did, na "Germany's day of doom." Hindenburg pays: "This was our first great disaster from which there was no great recovery." The book concludes with a stirring call to young Germany to prepare for the fuure.