Outside Verdun

Copyright

First published in the UK May 2014

© Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 1957

First published in Amsterdam in 1935 by Querido, Amsterdam

Freight Books

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Copyright © Arnold Zweig, 1935

Translation © 2014 Fiona Rintoul

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All the characters in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental

A CIP catalogue reference for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-908754-52-3

eISBN 978-1-908754-53-0

Typeset by Freight in Plantin Std

The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Geothe-Institut which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs