The War Office, Past and Present (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The War Office, Past and Present

In passing it may be stated that in the production of this work not a penny of public money has been disbursed, nor an hour of public time expended. Assistance has been kindly offered by high officials, but it has been found possible to avoid troubling them, except to an insignificant extent, by making a particularly full and free use of the British Museum Library, where probably almost everything that is in the War Office, and can with propriety...