First-Class Men: A Novel of German Army Life:Confiscated in Germany - Unabridged American Edition

From the PREFACE. Count Baudissin's book, now placed before the English-speaking public, is the sensation of Germany. It has created heated debates in the Reichstag. It has been suppressed by the police, and its author is being criminally prosecuted - for what? For telling the plain truth about the German army, its officers, the medieval and feudal ideas still prevailing among them, the remarkable code of honor and morals which governs these "First-Class Men." Startling as Count Baudissin's...