Editing H. G. Wells (section)

====Wartime works====
[[File:The War That Will End War - Wells.djvu|thumb|upright|left|Title page of Wells's ''The War That Will End War'' (1914)|page=7]]
Seeking a more structured way to play war games, Wells wrote ''[[Floor Games]]'' (1911) followed by ''[[Little Wars]]'' (1913), which set out rules for fighting battles with [[toy soldier]]s (miniatures).<ref name="toy soldiers">{{cite news|last1=Rundle|first1=Michael|title=How H.{{nbsp}}G. Wells Invented Modern War Games 100 Years Ago|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/09/hg-wells-little-wars-how-_n_3044934.html|work=The Huffington Post|date=9 April 2013}}</ref> A [[pacificism|pacifist]] prior to the [[First World War]], Wells stated "how much better is this amiable miniature [war] than the real thing".<ref name="toy soldiers"/> According to Wells, the idea of the game developed from a visit by his friend [[Jerome K. Jerome]]. After dinner, Jerome began shooting down toy soldiers with a toy cannon and Wells joined in to compete.<ref name="toy soldiers"/>

During August 1914, immediately after the outbreak of the First World War, Wells published a number of articles in London newspapers that subsequently appeared as a book entitled ''The War That Will End War''.{{r|wagar|p=147}}<ref>{{cite news |title=A War to End All War |url=https://www.vision.org/history-the-great-war-can-a-war-end-all-war-33 |access-date=27 February 2020 |agency=Vision.org|quote=Wells wrote: "This is now a war for peace. It aims straight at disarmament. It aims at a settlement that shall stop this sort of thing for ever. Every soldier who fights against Germany now is a crusader against war. This, the greatest of all wars, is not just another war—it is the last war!"}}</ref> He coined the expression with the idealistic belief that the result of the war would make a future conflict impossible.<ref>{{cite news |title=Armistice Day: WWI was meant to be the war that ended all wars. It wasn't. |url=https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/11/armistice-day-wwi-was-meant-to-be-the-war-that-ended-all-wars-it-wasn-t |access-date=13 September 2021 |agency=[[Euronews]]}}</ref> Wells blamed the [[Central Powers]] for the coming of the war and argued that only the defeat of German [[militarism]] could bring about an end to war.<ref name="Russell">{{cite book |title=The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell |editor-last=Rempel |editor-first=Richard A. |date=2003 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-415-10463-0 |page=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h9vF8W1dW48C&pg=PA10 |access-date=2010-08-24}}</ref> Wells used the shorter form of the phrase, "[[the war to end war]]", in ''In the Fourth Year'' (1918), in which he noted that the phrase "got into circulation" in the second half of 1914.<ref>{{cite book |title=Short Works of Herbert George Wells |last=Wells |first=H. G.  |author-link=H. G. Wells |date=2008 |publisher=[[BiblioBazaar, LLC]] |isbn=978-1-4375-2652-3 |pages=13–14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MkguSdsC3xYC&pg=PA13 |access-date=2010-08-24}}</ref> In fact, it had become one of the most common [[catchphrase]]s of the war.<ref name="Russell"/>

In 1918, Wells worked for the British [[War Propaganda Bureau]], also called Wellington House.<ref name="Wartime"/> Wells was also one of fifty-three leading British authors — a number that included [[Rudyard Kipling]], [[Thomas Hardy]] and Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] — who signed their names to the "Authors' Declaration." This manifesto declared that the German invasion of Belgium had been a brutal crime, and that Britain "could not without dishonour have refused to take part in the present war".<ref name="Wartime">{{cite news |title=1914 Authors' Manifesto Defending Britain's Involvement in WWI, Signed by H.{{nbsp}}G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/british-authors-and-wwi-propaganda-manifesto-signed-by-h-g-wells-arthur-conan-doyle-rudyard-kipling.html |access-date=27 February 2020 |work=Slate}}</ref>