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Most of the novels about the World War, from Andreas Latzko's Men in Battle (1930) to Humphrey Cobb's Paths of Glory (1935), have been in terms of frontline fighting. To such outstanding exceptions as John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers and Arnold Zweig's Case of Sergeant Grischa was added this week Author van der Meersch's Invasion-the first novel to show what the War was like for civilians caught behind the German lines. Invasion's scene is the district around Lille, in northern France, a narrow strip between the Belgian border...
...individual instances of coldblooded killing. Since the World War, writers who are also veterans have been resurrecting many an unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That), Germany's Fritz von Unruh (Way of Sacrifice), Erich Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Arnold Zweig...
SEVEN DAYS-Andreas Latzko-Viking ($2.50)* Andreas Latzko's Men in War was one of the first realistic War books to make a considerable sensation. Since then post-War upheaval has sent Latzko, like many a German and Austrian author, to sociological school. In Seven Days he measures the German social disorder with a top-to-toe glance...
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