The White Morning a Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The White Morning a Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime (Classic Reprint) written by Gertrude Atherton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The White Morning a Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime When she was fourteen and her sisters Lili and Elsa sixteen and eighteen they had met in the attic of their home in Berlin one afternoon when their father was automati cally at his club and their mother taking her prescribed hour of rest, and solemnly pledged one another never to marry. The causes of this vital conclave were both cumulative and immediate. Their father, the Herr Graf, a fine looking junker of sixty odd, with a rov ing eye and a martial air despite a corpulence which annoyed him excessively, had trans ferred his lost authority over his regiment to his household. The boys were in their own regiments and rid of parental discipline, but the countess and the girls received the full benefit of his military, and Prussian, rel ish for despotism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.