War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
                                            
                            By H. G. Wells
                            
                                30 Jan, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, b
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                                                War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled him. Except for the opening piece, its chapters were published as articles in the press. Though proclaiming early in the volume that "I avow myself an extreme Pacifist," Wells staunchly supported Britain's war against Germany "in the hope that so we and the world may be freed from the German will-to-power and all its humiliating and disgusting consequences henceforth forever." War and the Future is divided into four parts. Less