Publisher's Synopsis
The soldiers in the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-35) fought mainly with a great lack of water, the American soldiers in the Spanish-American War in Cuba (1898), on the other hand, with moisture, rot and epidemics, the soldiers in the First World War with industrialized warfare. How these diverse traumas, which turned the combatants into "ghosts", were dealt with in writing in autobiographical reports and in fictional literature, connects the contributions of this volume. Authors such as Augusto Céspedes, Arnold Zweig, Paul Coelestin Ettighoffer, Johann Jacob Jörimann or the German homecoming literature from Joseph Roth to Hans Sochaczewer and Alfred Döblin to Erich Maria Remarque are in the foreground of the literary analyzes.
