And This is War

New York: Cochrane Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed to U.S. Secretary of State John Watson Foster and signed by author on front endpaper. Spine faded, edges and endpapers lightly foxed. 1910 Hard Cover. 150 pp. In 1910, when "And This is War" was published, emotional wounds of the American Civil War were as yet unhealed. In Europe the winds of the next great war were beginning to stir, and in the United States a spirit of isolationism prevailed. This book does not glorify war, but rather condemns all wars, with thirty-five related short stories that portray the heartache, sadness, hopelessness and devastation that accompany war.