Front cover information on this small booklet: Rare Booklet -- the only one of its kind on eBay at the time of this listing...
Dedicated to our Heroes.
Gold and Blue Stars Illustrated.
40 THRILLING STORIES BY WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
40,000 Words.
"The Destiny of the Nations," by one who gave his life.
Price 25 cents.
Booklet pages are held together by two staples. The cover is loose on these staples. Booklet measures 5 3/8" x 7 3/8".
64 Pages.
Back page info: Published Quarterly, $1 per year, New York, June 1919, Vol. No. 2.
Inside front cover page:
In the end, however approached, the wrong kind of militarism can only be successfully defeated by the right kind of militarism, and bad government by good government, not by no government. Then with the manhood of the world prepared to back up the nations in insisting upon arbitration will come the long and lasting armed peace.
CEDRIC S. BREWER.
On first page:
One of America's Greatest Martyrs. Private CEDRIC S. BREWER who fell in Flander's Field September 29, 1918. Outlined present League of Nations and gave his life for it.
Joined the First Canadian Calvary, 1914.
Transferred to the Canadian Highlanders who held Calais, later taking Vimy Ridge.
Recovering from first poison gas used at Ypres, 1915, when British had "Back to Wall Holding Calais."
Honorably discharged as no longer fit for service, recovered, again volunteered in 1917 with the London Scottish, most intrepid fighters.
Fell breaking the Hindenburg line in the last grand rush.
Lies buried near Bullecourt in Flanders.
Page 3: Copyright 1919 by UNION ASSOCIATED PRESS, (Inc. 1894), 209 Canal Street, New York.
Page 5: A SOLDIERS PROPHECY FROM THE TRENCHES. This memorial to Cedric S. Brewer, who fell in action in France, Sept. 29th, 1918, with London Scottish, is compiled from his book "The Destiny of the Nations," and his writings while in the trenches, and the paragraphs are arranged in epigrammatic style rather than in their inter-relative sequence.
This little memento is all the more interesting because in many ways it is prophetic. He forecast in 1916 in his book "by a soldier of the great war," the result of the war, the League of Nations "the only way to World Peace," and the undoubted ultimate outcome of the Peace Conference.
All the stories, tales and details follow in the next 59 pages.
Stapled booklet is very worn; covers are dirty and worn; some pages have faded and are hard-to-read; all edges worn; pages darkened as they have aged; see all photos attached...
I'll place the booklet inside a plastic sleeve and add a piece of white foam board for protection while mailing by USPS First Class in a bubble envelope.
I'll mail the same day, or next day after payment is received.