GREAT WAR BY GREGOR ALEXINSKY Ex-Deputy to the Duma Gregoriy, Aleksinskiř TRANSLATED BY BERNARD MIALL NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 597-599 FIFTH AVENUE 0141544 "PETROGRAD, 12 January.-At Lemberg the convalescent Russian soldiers, blinded by vitriol, which was flung in their faces by the Germans, offer a pitiful spectacle. With bandaged features, they move in Indian file, holding on to a cord, and led by a guide" (Telegram published in the journal L'Humanité, January 13, 1915). TO THESE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS, AND TO OTHER VICTIMS OF THE WAR, WHICH THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE DID NOT DESIRE, I RESPECTFULLY DEDICATE THE PRESENT VOLUME THE AUTHOR |