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Prayer After the Slaughter: The Great War: Poems and Stories From World War I (Kurt Tucholsky in Translation)
Prayer After the Slaughter The Great War Poems and Stories From World War I - Kurt Tucholsky in Translation Author:Kurt Tucholsky Never before or after have the horrors of the “Great War?, as World War I was known, been captured as by Kurt Tucholsky. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany?s best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved o... more »nes back home. His writings are similar to those of Heinrich Heine, his role model, in appearing superficially simple, but replete with hidden meanings, they are touching, stirring and precisely to the point. He makes the war that still looms even into our own 21st century come alive. This is the first bilingual anthology in German and in English of his works on World War I.« less