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Cardinal Mercier's Own Story (Paperback)
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Cardinal Mercier's Own Story (Paperback)
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I THINK I owe the public a word of explanation as to how this book
has seen the light. During the war, and more frequently after the
armistice, I was asked would I write a narrative of my war
experiences. I had taken many notes of events as they had occurred,
and my memory was full of incidents in which I was concerned. Much
as I would have wished to write such a story, from some points of
view, if only to vindicate my country against its detractors, the
libels circulated by its enemies, yet I felt, more and more
inevitably as the weeks rolled by, that I would never have time to
write this book. I then thought of my correspondence with the
German authorities right through the war. Here are my war
experiences in their most tense and vivid reality; all the issues I
fought with the occupying power, their methods and mine clearly
defined, undeniably fixed in black and white. So I asked a friend
of mine, Professor Mayence, of Louvain University, to take my notes
and material, and to edit my correspondence with short explanatory
remarks about the letters and the events they referred or led up
to. I also gave him some personal reminiscences for this purpose,
and with him revised the whole book. I could not let his work go to
press without publicly thanking him for having helped me as he has
done.
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