German Deserter's War Experience
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173
1917
English
- Translator's Preface
- March into Belgium
- Fighting in Belgium
- Shooting Civilians in Belgium
- German Soldiers and Belgian Civilians
- The Horrors of Street Fighting
- Crossing the Meuse
- In Pursuit
- Nearly Buried Alive on the Battlefield
- Soldiers Shooting Their Own Officers
- Sacking Suippes
- Marching to the Battle of the Marne—Into the Trap
- At the Marne—In the Maw of Death
- The Rout of the Marne
- The Flight from the Marne
- At the End of the Flight
- The Beginning of Trench Warfare
- Friendly Relations with the Enemy
- Fighting in the Argonnes
- Christmas in the Trenches
- The "Itch" A Savior
- In the Hell of Vauquois
- Sent on Furlough
- The Flight to Holland
- America and Safety
The author of this 1917 narrative, who escaped from Germany and military service after 14 months of fighting in France, did not wish to have his name made public, fearing reprisals against his relatives. The vivid description of the life of a common German soldier during “The Great War” aroused much interest when it was published in the United States in serial form. Here was a warrior against his will, a hater of militarism for whom there was no romance in war, but only butchery and brutality, grime and vermin, inhuman toil and degradation. His story also contains the first German description of the retreat of the Teutonic armies after the battle of the Marne. – From the Translator’s Preface
- Summary by Lee Smalley
- Summary by Lee Smalley
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