Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front

Peter C. Appelbaum is an Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University. His publications include the books Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War and Loyal Sons: Jews in the German Army in the Great War (both 2014) and, as translator and editor, Broken Carousel: German Jewish Soldier-Poets of the Great War (2017), Jewish Tales of the Great War (2017), Avigdor Hameiri’s Hell on Earth (2017; winner of the 2019 TLS-Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Translation), and Kurt Tucholsky’s Prayer after the Slaughter (2015).

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Foreword: All Quiet on the Eastern Front: The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach

Jay Winter



Acknowledgments

Note on Town Names

Translator’s Introduction



Introduction: Bernhard Bardach: A Biographical Sketch

Helmut Konrad



Chapter 1. 1914: Poland, Russia, Carpathians

Chapter 2. 1915: Carpathians, Gorlice-Tarnów, Southern and Western Ukraine

Chapter 3. 1916: The Brusilov Offensive and Its Aftermath

Chapter 4. 1917: Winter in Ukraine—Inspections—Blockade—Worsening Shortages

Chapter 5. 1918: Treaty of Brest Litovsk—Crippling Shortages—Piave—War’s End



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Bibliography

Index