Unknown Germany: An Inner Chronicle of the First World War Based on Letters and DiariesAn account of the German reaction to the European War, drawn from the letters and diaries of the soldiers of the Kaiser Reich and from the autobiographies and writings of German poets and thinkers. |
Contents
PROPHETS OF DOOM | 1 |
ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOMING OF WAR | 28 |
DISILLUSIONING ENCOUNTER WITH WAR | 51 |
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