Arnold Zweig. First edition, fourth printing (stated). Dust Jacket: Bery Good. An unclipped jacket with original price $2.50 on inside flap. In mylar protective wrapper. Small piece missing from spine and top front of jacket. Hardcover: Very Good. NY: Viking Press, 1929. Translated from German by Eric Sutton. No markings or writing in the book, 448 pp. A beautiful book with black cloth, gold design and lettering on cover and spine.
Arnold Zweig's, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, is the second novel of his Trilogy of the Transition series about World War I. The plot, based on a true story, revolves around the hapless Russian soldier, Sergeant Grischa
The main character is 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 Gischa is recaptured he is sentenced to be shot. He struggles to establish his true identity, but will it save him?
