The Invasion of the City of Washington: A Disagreeable Study in and of Military Unpreparedness (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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But the welfare of the living is beyond and above even the good repute of the dead. The second reason, and the better reason, for the writing of this book is that The Invasion of the City of Washington fur nishes the best example in the history of the United States of the inevitable results of the unmitigated foolishness and positive national crime of military un preparedness.

Sad to say, it is only slightly the best among a humiliating number of such examples.

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