Diplomat Between Wars RARE! by Hugh R. Wilson 1941 HC 1st Edition WWI WWII

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This auction is for a RARE Hardcover Book Entitled: Diplomat Between Wars by Hugh R. Wilson 1941 1st Edition RARE. Longmans, Green and Co. New York Toronto. 344 Pages. Ex lib rary with normal stickers, stamps. Otherwise clean and in good shape for its 71 years of age!! Every man can and does, I think, divide his life into sections. As he grows older, however, the sections expand or contract like the pleats of an accordion played by the hands of time and experience. A few years ago I should have divided my life into three sections : the period before the Great War, the Great War itself, and the subsequent years. These sections seemed to me, as I looked back on them, of almost equal duration, although in point of time there was, of course , no comparison. The events of the past three years have been such as to alter radically my own view of my life in retrospect. The outlines of the various periods have become modified by the pressure of the tremendous events of the last few years. I still see my life as sharply defined in point of time and experience, but the lines of demarcation have shifted from those of three years ago. Now, in the late months of 19 40, I think of events and of my own relation to them still in three periods: that which preceded the entry of the United States into the World War in 191 7, a twenty year period until read more