Books with author Bernard Adnet

Excerpt from Nothing of Importance: A Record of Eight Months at the Front With a Welsh Battalion, October, 1915, to June, 1916This, then, is the book that I have written. It is the spirit of the war as it came to me, first in big incoherent impressions, later as a more intelligible whole. Perhaps it will seem that the first chapters are somewhat light in tone and inclined to gloss over the terrible side of War. But that is just what happens at first, the interest and adventure are paramount, and it is only after a time, only after all the novelty has worn away, that one gets the real proportion. If the first chapters do not bite deep, remember that this was my experience. This book does not claim to be always sensational or thrilling. One claim only I make for it from end to end it is the truth.The events recorded are real and true in every detail. I have nowhere exaggerated; for in this war there is nothing more terrible than the truth.All the persons mentioned are also real, though I have thought it better to give them pseudonyms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Hadn't the African American Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger; The world would have remained black and white, and when we were trying today to teach our children to reject racism and respect for others regardless of gender, color, race and religion, we might have wanted to teach them how to persecute others, or to cope with their persecution!But today’s world is a colorful world, in which civilized societies impose as much human equality as possible on humanitarian grounds, a world that must reject racism in order to ensure its continuity and preserve the gains of civilization, a world that must view racism as one of the greatest threats that may lead to a dark phase of wars and disasters Social.How do children learn racism? How can they be protected from racism by its two sides, "being persecuted or persecuting others" ?, What are the mechanisms that make children deal with the different in a correct way? And why shouldn't children learn racism?

JOHN BERNARD PYE ADAMS was born on November 15th, 1890, at Beckenham, Kent. From his first school at Clare House, Beckenham, he obtained an entrance scholarship to Malvern, where he gained many Classical and English prizes and became House Prefect. In December, 1908, he won an open Classical scholarship at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he went into residence in October, 1909. He was awarded in 1911 Sir William Browne’s gold medals (open to the University) for a Greek epigram and a Latin ode, and in 1912 he won the medal for the Greek epigram again, and graduated with a First Class in the Classical Tripos. In his fourth year he read Economics.

Excerpt from Nothing of Importance: A Record of Eight Months at the Front With a Welsh Battalion, October, 1915, to June, 1916This, then, is the book that I have written. It is the spirit of the war as it came to me, first in big incoherent impressions, later as a more intelligible whole. Perhaps it will seem that the first chapters are somewhat light in tone and inclined to gloss over the terrible side of War. But that is just what happens at first, the interest and adventure are paramount, and it is only after a time, only after all the novelty has worn away, that one gets the real proportion. If the first chapters do not bite deep, remember that this was my experience. This book does not claim to be always sensational or thrilling. One claim only I make for it from end to end it is the truth.The events recorded are real and true in every detail. I have nowhere exaggerated; for in this war there is nothing more terrible than the truth.All the persons mentioned are also real, though I have thought it better to give them pseudonyms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.