November 1916 Photography toward the barbed wire and

toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines

In the first years of the twentieth century

Etaples amongst them – lies a deeply moving story

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

Once committed to the war effort

November 1916 Photography toward the barbed wire andDescription 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,