Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa

By Arnold Zweig

Book Overview

First published in English to wide acclaim in 1928, "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" is the story of a soldier of the Russian Army and prisoner of war of the Germans who escapes and tries 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 Grischa is recaptured he is sentenced to be shot. He struggles to establish his true identity, but will it save him?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140070575
• ISBN13: 9780140070576
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.

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Author's Note

"The novel called 'The Case of Sergeant Grischa' is the central piece of a Triptych of which the collective title will be 'A Trilogy of the Transition.' It will be preceded chronologically and dramatically by the novel called 'Education Before Verdun' (Bertin); the novel called 'The Crowning of a King' (Winfried) will follow it. 'The Case of Sergeant Grischa,' the plot of which is founded on fact, was conceived in the year 1917, composed and written as a play in 1921, and as a novel in 1926-27."