Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Diary of a French Private: War Imprisonment 1914 1915
The women are even more horrible than the men. The murderous glance, the clawed fingers, working and tearing as if in the dream of a tigress, the nostrils dilated and twitching, the lips cyanosed, grimacing hatred never before have I seen such faces Of damned souls, such Medusa heads. Who could believe that women should appear so horrible! When the train stops for any time, richly dressed matrons parade beside it, Ofi'ering our guards mugs of beer, cigars and cigarettes, bread-and-butter and jam, steaming sausages. Sick with hunger and fatigue, we look on at this prodigality. Above all, they say, give nothing to these French! Let them starve! We are Offered water.
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