Preface

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.

This book is neither an accusation nor a confession. Above all, it is not an adventure. For death is not an adventure to those who face it. The book will simply try to tell the story of a generation of men destroyed by the war, even if they escaped its shells.