Арнольд Цвейг - Outside Verdun

First published in the UK May 2014

© Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 1957

First published in Amsterdam in 1935 by Querido, Amsterdam

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Copyright © Arnold Zweig, 1935

Translation © 2014 Fiona Rintoul

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ISBN 978-1-908754-52-3

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The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Geothe-Institut which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs

David Reynolds, The Long Shadow: the Great War and the twentieth century , London 2013.

See David Midgley, Writing Weimar. Critical Realism in German Literature, 1918-1933 , Oxford 2000, chapter 6: ‘Remembering the War’.