Abstract

A Man of Peace and War

This article critically appraises the book "Men in War," by Andreas Latzko. The soul of Andreas Latzko has been stirred to its depths by the horror, the madness, the brutality of the present gigantic conflict and he has here painted a picture of war as he sees it with such poignant feeling and such vivid art that no one who reads these passages, glowing with passion for outraged humanity, will ever quite forget them. In the war of the books--that blurred and distorted reflection of the great war--far above the appalling army of little profiteers that have commercialized a tragic spectacle for their glorification or cheapened its tragedy by acrid recrimination, stand the stern figures of two soldiers, Henri Barbusse and Andreas Latzko, who have written from actual experience and have yet maintained the spirit of common brotherhood and a profound sense of pity and justice.