Excerpt from The Amateur Spirit
In South Africa was a revival among English men of the spirit of self-examination. The unex pected duration and the staggering cost of the war brought sharply home to them a realization of national shortcomings. When every allowance was made for the natural difieulties against which the British troops so gallantly contended, there remained a good deal of incontrovertible and nu welcome evidence of defective preparation, of in adequate training. The War Ofice maps were incomplete; the Boer positions were ill reconnoi.
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