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A German Deserter's War Experience

A German Deserter's War Experience

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Number of Chapters: 25

Length: 05 hours and 20 minutes

Language: English

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

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Translator's Preface (Lee Smalley)
March into Belgium (Lee Smalley)
Fighting in Belgium (Lee Smalley)
Shooting Civilians in Belgium (Lee Smalley)
German Soldiers and Belgian Civilians (Lee Smalley)
The Horrors of Street Fighting (Lee Smalley)
Crossing the Meuse (Lee Smalley)
In Pursuit (Lee Smalley)
Nearly Buried Alive on the Battlefield (Lee Smalley)
Soldiers Shooting Their Own Officers (Lee Smalley)
Sacking Suippes (Lee Smalley)
Marching to the Battle of the Marne—Into the Trap (Lee Smalley)
At the Marne—In the Maw of Death (Lee Smalley)
The Rout of the Marne (Lee Smalley)
The Flight from the Marne (Lee Smalley)
At the End of the Flight (Lee Smalley)
The Beginning of Trench Warfare (Lee Smalley)
Friendly Relations with the Enemy (Lee Smalley)
Fighting in the Argonnes (Lee Smalley)
Christmas in the Trenches (Lee Smalley)
The "Itch" A Savior (Lee Smalley)
In the Hell of Vauquois (Lee Smalley)
Sent on Furlough (Lee Smalley)
The Flight to Holland (Lee Smalley)
America and Safety (Lee Smalley)
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