November 1916 Photography Etaples amongst them – lies

Etaples amongst them – lies a deeply moving story

tall and proud

The British regulars were indeed skillful soldiers

no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow

along with a large number of illustrations and period photographs rarely seen

November 1916 Photography Etaples amongst them – liesDescription by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Paperback The month of November 1916 in Russia was outwardly quietthe proverbial calm before the stormbut beneath the placid surface, society seethed fiercely. In Petrograd, as St. Petersburg was then known, luxury store windows are still brightly lit; the Duma debates the monarchy, the course of war, and clashing paths to reform; the workers in the miserable munitions factories veer toward sedition. At the front,