On 1 July 1914 an Englishman crossed into Germany on business and holiday, never imagining war was weeks away. Before long he was serving in the Russian army and fought in Poland, and his narrative follows the campaigns on the Vistula and its tributaries, the endless reinforcements through Warsaw and the hardships that turned his love of war to loathing.
An unusual Eastern Front memoir by a British volunteer in the Tsar’s army. Download the free EPUB.