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72383 — E-203. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Viking Press New York. 1929. 449 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's gift inscription present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The 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 Gischa is recaptured he is sentenced to be shot. He struggles to establish his true identity but will it save him ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover