Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1919 — History of the Great War Will Necessarily Be World’s History for Last Four Years [ARTICLE]

History of the Great War Will Necessarily Be World’s History for Last Four Years

Already, of course, we have histories of the great war—scores, even hundreds, of them. They began to appear on the bookstalls almost simultaneously with the roar of the big guns. But who shall write the history, the one for which libraries, colleges and universities will subscribe? Certainly, not one man. This.,was a fiveplane war; on the water and under the water; on the land and under the land—and in the air. From first to last more than a score of military fronts were involved, counting the western and the Italian fronts each as one, with a total extension of 800 miles. But the military operations constitute only one division of the activities a historian will have to cover. A real history will include such divisions as diplomacy, chemistry, mechanics, ordnance and aeronautics; food, fuel, labor, industry. In short, the history -of the war has been thq history of the world for the last four years.