Excerpt from Anno 1870: Kriegsbilder In depicting that great struggle in all the minutiae of its reality, the poet no matter how realistic his report was forced to exercise a certain reticence, for the whole truth could not be told, as every one knows who has had a glimpse of a battlefield in modern warfare. As a whole and seen from a distance war is some thing too detestable for both artist and poet, but when looked at from near at hand and in full view of its details and episodes, then the picturesqueness of mili tary life reveals itself, and all seems human and noble The shiver of the soldier in rain and snow, the pathetic and grotesque position in which he sleeps, the posi tion in which he dies; in short, the mean, poor, and pitiable heroisms of his life and death offer a fertile field for anecdotal art and literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.