Case Of Sergeant Grischa, The

Inscribed & dated 1928 FLEP, Tinge Of Toning, rough cut, else appears as clean, unblemished copy in black cloth covered boards, gold gilt, displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown.

Author's note: The Case of Sergeant Grischa is the central piece of Triptych of which the collective title will be 'A Trilogy of the Transition.' It will be preceded chronologically and dramatically by the novel called 'Education before Verdun' (Bertin); the novel called 'The Crowning Glory' (Winfried) will follow it. 'The Case of Seargeant Grischa,' the plot of which is founded on fact, was conceived in the year 1917, composed and written as a play in 1921, and as a novel in 1926-27. Made into a movie in 1930, nominated for an Oscar for Sound Recording; "It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived." "A moving story of a simple Russian peasant caught on the Eastern Front in World War I, this classic novel was first published to wide acclaim in English in 1928. It is a devastating indictment of military brutality and a horrifying tale of an individual caught in the cogs of a remorseless machine. Grischa, a soldier of the Russian Army and prisoner of war of the Germans, escapes and determines to find his way home across the war-ravaged wastes of Central Europe. To evade arrest, he wears the uniform of a dead German soldier he finds in the snow. But the dead German was a deserter, and when Grischa is recaptured he is sentenced to be shot. He struggles to establish his true identity." Simplified; An interesting historical novel of an ordinary Russian soldier-peasant escaping from a German WW1 prison camp and trying to make his way back to Russia, assuming the identity of a spy but is recaptured and sentenced to death for espionage. #2511-50719

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