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American Forces in Germany

Fourth Section General Staff

Coblenz

July 24, 1922

Colonel John Buchan c/o Thomas Nelson & Sons 35 & 36 Paternoster Row London, E.C.

Dear Col. Buchan

I acknowledge receipt of your letter of July 11th and of Volumes III and IV of your History of the War. I expect to be able to return them to you very shortly.

I cannot tell you the pleasure I have had in reading your History. Ordinarily to wade through nearly 3,000 pages of historical matter is not an easy task and it has taken a long time in this instance, but I have enjoyed every moment of it. It is so charming in its style and so rich in historical comparison and allusion that it is as fascinating to me as a well written work of fiction.

Houghton Mifflin & Co., have asked me to write an introduction for the American edition and I am doing the best that I can, but I feel that my effort will undoubtedly suffer in comparison with the work it is intended to introduce.

I am sorry that I shall probably not reach England this year. I am being detained in Europe with a view to using me as a member of a mission to investigate the alleged atrocities against the christians in Anatolia in case my country decides to participate

in such investigation and the Turkish Government assents to having it made.

I thank you for your courtesy in sending me Volumes III and IV and shall return them in good condition.

Very sincerely yours,

J.G. Harbord