The Case of Sergeant Grischa

December 1928 edition. Third printing of this book translated from German. Hardbound. No dust jacket. Cover in good condition. Shows very little wear. The bottom of the spine shows some bumping. There is a name written on the inside with the year 1929. The pages of the book are age toned but clean, not torn and the corners are not bent. The spine is undamaged. No unpleasant odors. Overall, in remarkably good condition for a book of that age.

"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?"