By 1928, when Americans had almost 900 novels about World War I, the appearance of one German novel in English translation excited American readers more than had any other novel - Arnold Zweig's The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Amazed to learn the other side of the war from the perspective of the common soldier, American readers continued throughout the 1930's to enjoy Zweig's succeeding volumes about Grischa and to sympathize with his anti-Nazi activities...