Books: Teutonic Tetralogy

YOUNG WOMAN OF 1914—Arnold Zweig —Viking ($2.50). .

German authors like to give themselves plenty of room. Good German Author Arnold Zweig* herewith puts out the first volume of his War epic. Volumes 2 and 4 (Education before Verdun, The Crowning of a King') are still to come. Volume 3 is the already-published The Case of Sergeant Grischa, one of the few good War books, often compared with the world-best-selling All Quiet on the Western Front, sometimes preferred to it.

Readers of Sergeant Grischa will remember Hero Bertin as the intellectual military clerk whose...

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