The Romance of the Last Crusade: With Allenby to Jerusalem (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Romance of the Last Crusade: With Allenby to Jerusalem<br><br>By a chance most fortunate I heard Major Vivian Gilbert tell the story which he has written here. When it was done I was astonished to find that he had been talking for an hour; time had been quite forgotten and I was ready to listen to him for as much longer as he might have been willing to speak. So have I by certain firesides sat enthralled while others from the Somme or the Argonne or Mesopotamia made us forget time while they forgot themselves in narrating what they had seen and done; but this was in privacy: none have I heard who could hold an audience in public with a war tale as Major Gilbert did. Such tales Should be told and should be set down. They serve to remind us of the greatness in man at a time when his littleness seems chie?y to the fore. They will serve the future too as documents.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.