Excerpt from The Man Who Lost His PastI've no patience with them Germans, was the comment of a railway policeman. They never know their luck.The railway policeman assumed that any person or persons unknown, speaking a language which was not English, without insulting him, must be of the equable Teuton stock, people who, though made in Germany, insisted on taking English bread out of British mouths.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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