Word: lieutenantship
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...company!" When he went out to play, the family gardener fired the young Paul's imagination with tales of how he had served as a drummer-boy under Frederick the Great. At the age of "eighteen-and-a-half" Paul had won his way through military school to lieutenantship in the Austro-Prussian War. Said he, years afterward, "I made no choice of a profession. To fight was 'the only thing to do,' 'eine Selbstverstandlichkeit...
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