PILLBOX 17

German autobiographical novel concerning “The Horrors of warfare in one of those artificial outposts on the Western Front” by Germany’s Labour Poet, with a Foreword specially written for the English edition. A fine German autobiographical novel. In this powerful work, which is in some way a parallel to the English "Journey's End", we are given a realistic picture of the horrors of warfare in one of those artificial outposts on the Western Front. A number of men are cooped up in a pillbox and it rains unendingly. Shells burst overhead. An enemy plane flies over with devastating effect - one dead, three wounded. Two set forth on a quest for assistance, and we follow them in their exciting journey; but no help is possible till darkness has fallen. Meanwhile the pillbox falls in, the occupants are buried alive, thirst overpowers them. They try to open a way out - but they fail. At last help comes but too late, and corpses are all that is to be found in Pillbox 17. Reprint of the original 1930 first English edition.