,B.Attached is a book review from 1930 written by war poet Robert Graves (pictured on the right) covering the World War I memoir A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, by the British General F.P. Crozier. Graves was surprised to find that a senior officer should have written such a book and came away liking it very much: "It is the only account of fighting on the Western Front that I have been able to read with sustained interest and respect." Crozier's memoir did not spare the reader any details involving the nastier side of the war; he reported on "trench suicides", self-inflicted wounds and mutinies: "[General F.P. Crozier] deliberately taught blood-lust to his recruits and fed them with lying propaganda, knowing it to be a lie, 'to corrode their kindly minds with bitter-sweet vice and keep them up to the vicious scratch.'"
Click here to read the 1918 interview with General Hindenburg in which he declared that the Germans lost the war as a result of the American Army.
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