"Prigonan Haiat"—By Karl Wilke Hutchinson & Ca, La, London. battle scenes with their accompany-Another war book depicting vet ing horrors but the terrible hardships endured by a prisoner of war.
story opens with the great retreat of the Germans in 1018. Weary and worn but little rest out of the front line, the battalion in which Holm served gradually melted till it ended with the capture of the remnants by the French. The expectation of reasonable treatment as a prisoner of war Soon faded. Instead came no food oF insufficient food, long marches, no shelter at night, and brutal treatment by the guards. The book has bitter attacks on the French both for their conduct towards their prisoners, and the retention of the Ittter for so many months after the Armistice. It is a picture of human nature at its worst; the pri-[soners quarrel amongst themselves, and are ill-treated by men of their own nationality put in charge of them.
However powerfully and graph cally written is this tale of a pri Soner of war—and there is no quettion that it is so written—whethe the. publication is worth while is problematic. Tt can but perpetuate! the hate engendered by the war between the two nations and delay the healing influence of time. Probably this tale of ill treatment of German prisoner of war could be matched by a similar tale of a French prisoner of war.
The gloom is brightened from cidents jumana commandant time to time by relation of, me Sind the offerjof food by the civilian Population. But even. when con-Gitions had much improved Holm is made to say "no it will not. be forgotten, the Candor chapter is not **the book ends on the happy note of the reunion of Holm with his wife in Germany—o.w.x.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.