"Hans Zöberlein was one of the lucky ones.
Or was he?
Born in 1895 in Imperial Germany, he was of precisely the right age group to be sucked into the maelstrom of World War One. That was unlucky. And no sooner had he finished his military training than he was shipped off to the massacre masquerading as a battle known as Verdun. That was unluckier still. So it's no coincidence then that the first volume of"Faith in Germany" (Glaube an Deutschland) his (when all volumes are counted) 900 page account of his wartime experiences, begins with an account of that massacre -- and reading through it, one wonders how the hell he survived." - M. G Watson