Zero Hour by Grabenhorst Georg (25 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Zero Hour. Book.

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Condition: New. 2005 N&M Press reprint (original pub in English1929). SB. 320pp.Published Price £11.50 This is a work of fiction whose central character is a Hans Volkenhorn, eighteen years old when the story begins and an officer candidate, or Fahnenjunker. In the German army, recruitment for the Officer Corps was based on commissioning young men who joined the ranks as officer candidates (Fahnenjunkers) or cadets from the Cadet Corps. After a period of service as a private soldier, though with some privileges over his fellow privates, the Fahnenjunker was sent on a course for potential officers and if successful he was commissioned as a Fahnrich (ensign) with the right to wear the coveted officer's sword knot. This novel is unusual for a German work of fiction on the Great War in that it eschews scenes of gratuitous brutality and blood and gore and yet the descriptions of the battlefields and other scenes where our hero was involved are vivid enough, for which the translator, A. Featherstonhaugh, must take the credit. Volkenhorn is a sensitive, artistic individual, very much family-minded, scarcely an adult when his war begins (in the summer of 1917 on the Flanders coast) and not yet twenty when his war ends in blindness. He was a rifleman in an infantry battalion but soon transferred to the MG company. Back home he has a girl friend, Annaliese, to whom he is constantly writing letters and to whom his thoughts are constantly turning. He has much to say about his fellow 'Junkers' whose friendships were all-important to him, and yet admitting his detestation of one of them for his filthy and smutty yarns, saying there were moments when he could cheerfully shoot him. His picture of the fighting at Poelcapelle is real enough and he recounts one incident when he comes across two German soldiers cutting thick pieces of flesh from a horse that had just gone down but was not dead. In a fury he puts three bullets in the animal's head and turns on the men yelling: "They ought to be in your skulls, you brutes!" But for me the finest piece of descriptive writing comes towards the end when he is buried in the trench by shellfire and rescued. It is the gradual loss of his sight over a period that is told with such realism that you can almost feel it yourself. This story is a fine piece of writing. Book.…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 324 pages. 7.32x4.84x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Name of the previous owner. First English Edition, 1929. Stamp mark Colonia edition. Publication of 320 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is light foxing around the block of the book, and on the first and last pages, very little within the body of the book. Internally the pages are clean and bright. The binding has been repaired. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Condition: Good. 1929. Third impression. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate to heavy sunning and tanning, particularly to spine.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Dark green cloth hard cover with pink titles on front and white titles on spine, cover wear is confined to minor roughening of spine ends only. Clean interior with 306 pages including some writing in German on blank page facing the first page. Published in 1929 this 1st edition is in very good to fine condition. …

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 324 4:B&W 5 x 8 in or 203 x 127 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

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Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 324.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This is a work of fiction whose central character is a Hans Volkenhorn, eighteen years old when the story begins and an officer candidate, or Fahnenjunker. In the German army, recruitment for the Officer Corps was based on commissioning young men who joined the ranks as officer candidates (Fahnenjunkers) or cadets from the Cadet Corps. After a period of service as a private soldier, though with some privileges over his fellow privates, the Fahnenjunker was sent on a course for potential officers and if successful he was commissioned as a Fahnrich (ensign) with the right to wear the coveted officer's sword knot. This novel is unusual for a German work of fiction on the Great War in that it eschews scenes of gratuitous brutality and blood and gore and yet the descriptions of the battlefields and other scenes where our hero was involved are vivid enough, for which the translator, A. Featherstonhaugh, must take the credit. Volkenhorn is a sensitive, artistic individual, very much family-minded, scarcely an adult when his war begins (in the summer of 1917 on the Flanders coast) and not yet twenty when his war ends in blindness. He was a rifleman in an infantry battalion but soon transferred to the MG company. Back home he has a girl friend, Annaliese, to whom he is constantly writing letters and to whom his thoughts are constantly turning. He has much to say about his fellow 'Junkers' whose friendships were all-important to him, and yet admitting his detestation of one of them for his filthy and smutty yarns, saying there were moments when he could cheerfully shoot him. His picture of the fighting at Poelcapelle is real enough and he recounts one incident when he comes across two German soldiers cutting thick pieces of flesh from a horse that had just gone down but was not dead. In a fury he puts three bullets in the animal's head and turns on the men yelling: 'They ought to be in your skulls, you brutes!' But for me the finest piece of descriptive writing comes towards the end when he is buried in the trench by shellfire and rescued. It is the gradual loss of his sight over a period that is told with such realism that you can almost feel it yourself. This story is a fine piece of writing.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Zero Hour | Georg Grabenhorst Georg (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | No Series Linked | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2006 | Naval & Military Press | EAN 9781845743000 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…