Education Before Verdun Author:Arnold Sweig Thundering, crashing scenes of war...with burning hearts, breathless with the speed, the violence, the complexity of the action, we hurry along after the grim avenging soldier, seeing what he sees, and, vastly more than that, what Zweig saw...I have said nothing about the extraordinary vividness of the writing of this book, which drags you in bo... more »dily. As the screaming cannonade bursts over Fort Douaumont, you start and cower in your chair as though it were tearing the house to pieces over your head. You plod through the mud that dreary, rainy late afternoon, when the weary privates see suddenly that the Crown Prince's car is about to pass them...I have said nothing, also, about the fascinating, titled lady-nurse at the end. --Dorothy Canfield« less