Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written At And Near the Front

This is an amazing novel and outstanding travel book about the First World War. Irvin S. Cobb is a real gem among writes who work in this style. He is able to analyze the feelings of Belgian and French civilians, Prussian and Bavarian officers and his own feelings too. It is a journey to the mind of a man in the war, too. That makes his book a rare source to the mental history of the war. Cobb is a good and critical journalist, but he doesn't avoid the inevitable moral conclusions about the Firs