Excerpt from Since Then: The Disturbing Story of the World at PeaceThat struggle for peace, which now seems assured for a fair spell of human progress, unless the world goes mad again, is one of the forward movements of humanity, and the recovery of Europe from all that ruin that was left by the war is almost miraculous. It is half-forgotten history now, although so recent. Most of it is blurred in a vague remembrance. It is indeed extraordinarily difficult to get at the facts and dates and to find a connected narrative of episodes which were smothered at the time in newspaper reports or never told. Yet one ought not to forget that passionate history which changed the minds of men and women and led to a new era of world thought strangely divorced from the recent past.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.