Product Description
1976 - a classic ( arguably the classic) of WW1 fiction, first published in 1929.
Page tanning, and previous owners name to the title page.
One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
Translated from the origianl German by A.W Wheen