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extraordinary record of prisoners' life in Germany. It is full of stories of escape and attempted oscope long-drawn-out horror of the dying and the Inst one is after the Ar which would seem
but Frenchman in the shell-hole-these uistics when he pays her a briet for the fact that they are worrobor--were-inked as "Reality Tranzone-visit, and the reus en him all her nted by the actual names of the what suited the public taste. in fury over the war in general, the camps and of his companions The 1929. And more than that. This death of her lover and the damago same remarks apply to The Road book is distinguished by many per done to the farm. 24 Eidor by Liout doncs, this is fectly filthy passages. I besitate. a tale of captivity with the Turks, to say that those passages definits. ly caused "All Quiet" to be more popular: but they created a sensa tion.
In my opinion,
All Quiet on the Iment officer. The meeting between Festern Front, in spite of its in him and Madeline takes place in treating portrayal of the outlook both books and so does each sub
limbs torn apart and hanging on when Lieut. Skene, the English-
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There was, however, ong book written in 1910 that had a SURPLUS. FOOD STOCKS IN rent, writer at its author, and
therefore likely to survive. That is John Masefield's Gallipoli, It con: thins a restrained, truthful, and in
Memoirs by Lenders, Bome ways consoling nccount of
Among all the memoirs of lead that campaign, without any per
Its ing men-naval, military and civil. onal element in the story, main abjeet is in immortalise the in-pride of place must be con- men who fought and died there and ceded to The Furid Crisis by
Habin. During the period of the Railway Conflict between China and Soviet Russia, the American Vice Consul. Mr. A. Lilliestrom, made several visits to the western e as well as to the Three Rivers
In the second book, Sirly Four Ninety Four, we so the war through the eyes of that same Licut, Skene. It starts where he comes to the farm as a reinforce
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I know, any contemporary account comprehensive survey of all the victory, and there is not, so far tool ve volumes he has given us a
of fighting on
the Western Front events leading up to the War, and which can compare with it as a every material phase of the great struggle on the various fronts, on the sea and at home, Whereas the other accounts by leading men are written from the standpoint of the historian, the politician
Work of literature.
This book, however, is lacking in one piquant quality, essential for At the present moment the dis- the satisfaction of post-war readers, tricts of Haitar, Jalunor and It is devoid of criticism: and in Manchuti are perfectly quiet and this respect it is in complete con- complete order in miniatained, but test to some of those published at the same time life, in these dis-soon after the Armistice. We may tricts has become very stagnant take as an example of the latter, Realities of War by Philip Gibbes, and is far from what it was
the Press correspondent, who had been compelled during the war to abstain from criticism, though he had often seen evidence of the most He now gave ghastly blundera.
before the railway conflict. The first thing that strikes the eye at present in the grint number of tents on both sides of the railway line for the whole stretch from Hailar to Manchuli, "these being cupied by Mongols and Burints.
veht to his pent-up feelings pad dwelt, on the horrors he had
or the
man soldier, is not such a master. ↑ an opposite angle. Everything they piece as many British war books did is told again in different which, on account of their restraint words, up to that last disappoint. and wholesomeness, have not aring departure when they realise rested public attention to the same
that they mean nothing to one an- other, extent.
Other Realistle Books. As soon as it was realised a
naval and military leaders, Win-couple of years ago that the there ston Churchill is able to visualise author revelled in the horrors the whole world orisis and view it of wer and shocked his readers, the the public was given all it wanted. from several unique angles by ren greater was his chance of succes, son of the posts which he held,
The Storm of Steel, published in All Quiet on the Western Front. Germany some years before, was In January, 1929, there was pub translated and we were able to read dished in Germany the book which about casualities on almost every gave a great impetus to the revival page of interest and was destined to be. come famous above all others: Renmarque's All Quiet om
the
Robert Graves produced an au tonography, Goodbye to all That, in which ho emulated Remarque's example and dealt with all sorts it are very good, but throughout it ears evidence of being written by a neurotio person.
·ffhero" is a third book in what
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transinted into English and went through five editions in April, Since then two and a half million copies have been sold and it has been translated into 17 languages..
It is interesting to speculate why this book should have made such a universal appeal as compared with In Germany is all the others..
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Tu my opinion an equally great" novel on a war theme in The Case of Sergeant Griecha by Arnold Zweig, translated from the Ger man in 1928. It is the tale ofɑn Russian prisoner in Germany who the indentity disc of another Russian who is boing sought for as a spy. in caught by the Germans, tried It is a pleasure to turn to a re- by court diartial and sentenced to ally good-war tale of 1030, Her be shot. He proves who he really Privates We by Private 19029, Al-is, but military Red-Tape ordaina though it introduces a certain that the sentence shall stand. The amount of awduring, and is as true book is conceived on a vast scale!
piotune of the every day life of and leaves a great impression on the mon in the ranks as could be the imagination. wished fer, it is not objectionable, Its characters are a well-to-do raised a storm. It was apparently young follow who is being urged the first book of its kind containing to take a commission, a Jow who anti-Kaiser talk, criticisms of Prus is an inveterate lead-swinger," end & cheerful Lancashire youth sinn discipline, and pacifist proof soventeen. Some of my friends paganda, which were naturally re- have declared it is the best war sented by the nationalist elements book they have read. in Germany, and it became the most talked-of hook of the year. even though probably a majority of the German people condemned it.
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In the autumn of last year there
The Banker and Junior Officer. were many grass fires and as those were followed by heavy snow at Same of the first books to be en- the beginning of the winter, any livened by criticism were, as was grass which was not burng up was to be expected, written from the
I have only recently become. covered, leaving nothing for cattle point of view of that novel phens
familiar with a new English wär i feed on. The enormous expense menon, the educated private, cal
novel, Jedal without Bar by of feeding cattle is more than the dier. The first significant one from
Richard Blaker, and it would not Mongols can stand and they have the point of view of an ex-ranker
surprise me if it wore to take a Evirly high place in war literature. gradually drifted nearer to the wand Private in the Guards by
It is merely an nocount of the ad ailway lina hoping to find some Stephen Graham. It was rather
ventures of a middle-aged solicitor, a family man, who joins un, be grazing ground or buyers to tako refreshing to find that in this and
comes an artillery officer, and goes "The Spanish Farm."
through the war in France from ther cattle off their hands. The similar books prominence was at offers of cattle for the market belast given to the hardships andured
I am now coming to the subject 1916 to 1918, but like Zweig's book ing greater than in former years and the annoyance caused, not only
of Novels, but it is necessary to it is conceived on the big scale mention frat rather & peculiar which marks" great novels; unfor- prices have fallen and Harbin is as a meccseary condition of trench
work which, as John Galsworthy tunately it has the drawback, of now receiving much cheaper meat life, but in the enforcement of dis In England it was welcomed Assays in its proface, is not pre-being without a climax. It is Other raw products in the discipline by a certain type of auto-revealing the German private's cisaly a novel and not altogether a beautifuly written and admirably chronicle." allude to The restrained. The book has special trict, are also not in demand and | cratic N.C.O. and by that brand of point of view, after such a flood Spanish Form by Mottram, and interest for exservicemen in that thus the population of the western officer whose mind was so absorbed of books from the peas of our own ite counterpart Sixty Four Niarty it contains frequent references to Here we have a picture of the War, the line many of which are all too er and poorer, not being able to ed cartridges.
as seen through the eyes of the familiar to those who served in sell their goods and thus also not
daughter of a Flemish farmer, in whose abode British battalions are: being able to purchase imports.
Thus notwithstanding peace and order half the houses in Manchuli are empty, standing with windows and doors barred up.
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interested to find that even Garman N.C.O's were defed sometimes, Next to the ex-ranker, the ex-
even the German artillery occasion. subaltern was a man with an un-ally red short into its usually good viewpoint. One of the trenches; we never knew how an constantly being billetted from one petiting our bully beef really was year's end to another. To quote first books. by a subaltern was until we read that raids were made: Galsworthy nain, Madeline is Teil England, which passed through for the principal purpose of cantur amazingly lifelike: an individual Frenchwoman of the North, firm twenty editions in as many months, ing a store of it from our trenches.
There is far more pathos than
as ever stood on two excellent legs have never been able to work up humour in the book: in fact the no compromise about her outlines, much enthusiasm over that book. humour is almost non-existent, nothing Buffy and nothing sketchy The first half of if deals, with the Such incidents as the passing away in hor portrait. She imposes her of Kemmerich and breaking the self with her tenacity, her alear school days of the author, Ernest news to his mother, the significant knowledge of what she wants, her Raymond, up to August, 1814, and sight of a pile of new coffins as the determined way of getting it, her as a school hook it is interesting, troops enter a village, the sudden quick blood, her business capacity,
And once more her tenacity." shaftering of the recruite nervei, Then the eighteen-year-old lad and the hungry prisoners begging for Her relations with the British his pal become subalterns and set food, the Russians and subsequentare mostly concerned with making forth to the Dardenelles on a troop. ly the Germans dying of dysentry, money out of the sale of eggs. the death of Katthese things al- coffee and bread, cooking, meals and ship where they chum up with a most make one weep at the pity of washing shirts for officers, exacting Church of England pnilre as soon it all. I had always considered it compensation for damaged barns us they get on board. He is a very a sign of immaturity in an author and stolen hop poles, and checking it, he dwell crudely on the sordid up the billetting money which roll- sincere and likeable person, and details and hortora of the battle ed in as each successive unit paid under his persuasive influence they field. Apparently I we mistaken: for the privilege of occupying the embrace his religion with fervour, it was just what the public want farm. Her only love affair with ed. The accounts of bandaging a Britisher is not prompted by any Thenceforth the book becomes very mutilated me, the ghastly descrip- deep feelings, na hor heart is given the satisfaction of seeing myself in sentimental. I cannot help feeling tions of wounds and of soldiers be to a French Officer who nover trou-print once again and this time
bles to write to her. The occasions I shall not have to pay for it!
As regards the political situa- that a better title, for the booking blown out of their clothes, of tion, everything in Barga is per- would have been Tell the Church of
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Few books by junior. Army officers
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ruiding gungs which gave so much ary merit Siegfried Sassoon's trouble to the inhabitanta before having either been broken up by Memoirs of an fufantry Officer, which is of much more recent date.
the military or have disbanded.
A short time ago an entirely new - In the closing portion he deals with
band of robbers made its appear acco at Three Rivers settlement, it is such a small one that the dafonce forces will have no dif culty in liquidating it..
his pacifist obsession in 3017 and
hia defiance of military authority
As a protest against the continua
tion of the War. This gives the The economie situation of the western line is a wry bad condi- book a climax, which distinguishes tlun, though while many are makit from so many of these parratives Ing their way from the district to Harbin, there are many Harbiners of personal experiences. And yet who are trekking wat in the hope the climax is disappointing, for one of finding profitable work in the
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of affairs on the western line. In held very similar views to SassoON fiat alone there are 1,500 poods in in the early days of 1018, but if I store, and unless this quantity is had dared to adopt the same polity sold quickly, it will all be value cas the moment the weather gets war of defiance, the result would have
Prints are so low this they been a Bring party do not cover the freight and taxes, and, therefore, there are at pro- sent 17 cars of fish at Hailar sta. tion not despatched, but lying in
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