Word: grischa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letters whose 82 novels and plays dealt mainly with the intrinsic evils of war and its impact on the human soul; after a long illness; in East Berlin. From his experiences as a German soldier in World War I, Zweig fashioned his most famous novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, an evocative, existential account of a soldier executed as an example to the Kaiser's troops. Expelled as a Jew by Hitler in 1933, Zweig spent 15 years in Palestine, where he wrote The Crowning of a King, a tale of intrigue and diplomacy enveloping the German General Staff...
With exceptions such as Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That), Arnold Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), or Frederic Manning (Her Privates We), few survivors had the will or talent to write truly of the death of their generation, and with it the death of an old European society. It was left to the historians to assemble what they could from the records and statistics. At 76, Survivor Chapman is one of a dwindling group of 150 old comrades who share his memories. He is a historian (at the Universities of Leeds and Pittsburgh), but his academic work contains nothing...