Word: carossa
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...journal of a German doctor who served on the Roumanian front in the winter of 1916. Primarily a physician, a man of peace, he never strikes the professionally martial note. Once an artillery officer pointed out to him where the Roumanians were supposed to be, lent Dr. Carossa his field-glasses. "Turning a little screw, I suddenly discovered behind a juniper thicket a whole band of Roumanians digging themselves in; my first impulse was to tell the officer, but then I felt discouraged and said nothing." One of his duties was to help censor the men's letters to their...
Author Hans Carossa, 52, Bavarian, is a specialist in lung diseases. He practices his profession in Seestetten, a village on the Danube. During the War he served as medical officer with the Bavarian infantry on several fronts, was finally wounded in April, 1918 at Nieppe Wood. A Roumanian Diary is his first book to be translated into English...
...lives in Munich, whose university gave him his doctorate in philosophy; has written a book of verse, several novelettes and short stories, a tragedy based on the Ruhr Occupation. The Whistlers' Room was originally written (1928) as a contribution to a commemorative volume in honor of Poet Hans Carossa's 50th birthday...