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1939:
Thinking to Some Purpose ('39) ..
1940:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1940_books .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_books .
"Guilty Men" (40) ..
Guilty Men is a short book published in Great Britain in July 1940 that attacked British public figures for their failure to re-arm and their appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. It is the classic denunciation of appeasement and it shaped popular and scholarly thinking for 20 years.
In New Ways of War he wrote: "Knowing that science and the riches of the earth make possible an abundance of material things for all, and trusting our fellows and ourselves to achieve that abundance after we have won, we are willing to throw everything we now possess into the common lot, to win this fight. We will allow no personal considerations of rights, privileges, property, income, family or friendship to stand in our way. Whatever the future may hold we will continue our war for liberty."
https://www.military-history.org/books/new-ways-of-war-by-tom-wintringham.htm .
https://www.marxists.org/archive/hansen/1940/12/war.htm .
1943:
The Living Soil (1943) by Lady Eve Balfour is considered a seminal classic in organic agriculture and the organic movement. The book is based on the initial findings of the first three years of the Haughley Experiment, the first formal, side-by-side farm trial to compare organic and chemical-based farming, started in 1939 by Balfour (with Alice Debenham), on two adjoining farms in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England.
The Living Soil was also published as The Living Soil and the Haughley Experiment.
Devouring vs Digesting .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1940_books .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_books .
"Guilty Men" (40) ..
Guilty Men is a short book published in Great Britain in July 1940 that attacked British public figures for their failure to re-arm and their appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. It is the classic denunciation of appeasement and it shaped popular and scholarly thinking for 20 years.
The speed with which Guilty Men was written shows in its errors. For example, the authors muddled the place and date where Baldwin said that re-armament was unpopular with the voters. They placed it at the 1933 Fulham East by-election, instead of the 1935 general election, and dated the by-election to 1935. It also shows in its detailed description of the recent evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk.
The book's arguments and conclusions have been questioned by politicians and historians. In 1945, Quintin Hogg, MP, wrote The Left was never Right, which was critical of Guilty Men and argued that "unpreparedness before the war was largely the consequence of the policies of the parties of the Left". In 1944 Geoffrey Mander had published We were not all wrong.
The idea of appeasement as error and cowardice was challenged in 1960 by historian A. J. P. Taylor's controversial The Origins of the Second World War, in which he argued that, in the circumstances, it might be seen as a rational policy.
Guilty Men was written by three journalists: Michael Foot (a future Leader of the Labour Party), Frank Owen (a former Liberal MP), and Peter Howard (a Conservative). They believed that Britain had suffered a succession of bad leaders who, with junior ministers, advisers and officials, had conducted a disastrous foreign policy toward Germany and had failed to prepare the country for war. After Victor Gollancz, creator of the Left Book Club, had been persuaded to publish the book, the authors divided the 24 chapters among themselves and wrote it in four days, finishing on 5 June 1940. Gollancz asked for some of the rhetoric to be toned down, fearing the reaction it might provoke, but he rushed it into print in four weeks.
It was under a pseudonym because the writers were employed by Lord Beaverbrook, who banned his journalists from writing for publications other than his own. Beaverbrook, who was active in the Conservative Party, was also a vocal supporter of appeasement, though he was not mentioned in the book.
There was much speculation as to who was Cato. At one time Aneurin Bevan was named as its author. In the meantime, the real authors had some fun reviewing their own work. Michael Foot wrote an article, "Who is This Cato?" Beaverbrook was as much in the dark as anyone but joked that he "made do with the royalties from Guilty Men". The authors earned no money from the book as their literary agent, Ralph Pinker, absconded with the royalties.
The book's arguments and conclusions have been questioned by politicians and historians. In 1945, Quintin Hogg, MP, wrote The Left was never Right, which was critical of Guilty Men and argued that "unpreparedness before the war was largely the consequence of the policies of the parties of the Left". In 1944 Geoffrey Mander had published We were not all wrong.
The idea of appeasement as error and cowardice was challenged in 1960 by historian A. J. P. Taylor's controversial The Origins of the Second World War, in which he argued that, in the circumstances, it might be seen as a rational policy.
It was under a pseudonym because the writers were employed by Lord Beaverbrook, who banned his journalists from writing for publications other than his own. Beaverbrook, who was active in the Conservative Party, was also a vocal supporter of appeasement, though he was not mentioned in the book.
There was much speculation as to who was Cato. At one time Aneurin Bevan was named as its author. In the meantime, the real authors had some fun reviewing their own work. Michael Foot wrote an article, "Who is This Cato?" Beaverbrook was as much in the dark as anyone but joked that he "made do with the royalties from Guilty Men". The authors earned no money from the book as their literary agent, Ralph Pinker, absconded with the royalties.
Guilty Men was published in early July, shortly after Churchill took over as Prime Minister, the Dunkirk evacuation had shown Britain's military unpreparedness, and the Fall of France leaving the country with few allies. Several major book wholesalers, W H Smith and Wyman's, and the largest book distributor, Simpkin Marshall, refused to handle the book. It was sold on news-stands and street barrows and went through twelve editions in July 1940, selling 200,000 copies in a few weeks.
New Ways of War (40) ..
New Ways of War (40) ..
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| New Ways of War by Tom Wintringham, December 1940 |
Wintringham wrote several pamphlets on the war effort including New Ways of War (1940), Freedom is Our Weapon (1941) and Politics of Victory (1941).
In New Ways of War he wrote: "Knowing that science and the riches of the earth make possible an abundance of material things for all, and trusting our fellows and ourselves to achieve that abundance after we have won, we are willing to throw everything we now possess into the common lot, to win this fight. We will allow no personal considerations of rights, privileges, property, income, family or friendship to stand in our way. Whatever the future may hold we will continue our war for liberty."
https://www.military-history.org/books/new-ways-of-war-by-tom-wintringham.htm .
https://www.marxists.org/archive/hansen/1940/12/war.htm .
1943:
The Living Soil (1943) by Lady Eve Balfour is considered a seminal classic in organic agriculture and the organic movement. The book is based on the initial findings of the first three years of the Haughley Experiment, the first formal, side-by-side farm trial to compare organic and chemical-based farming, started in 1939 by Balfour (with Alice Debenham), on two adjoining farms in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England.
The Living Soil was also published as The Living Soil and the Haughley Experiment.
Devouring vs Digesting .
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