"The Lost Legion: A Czechoslovakian Epic" Topic

"It was late in the afternoon when Major Krolich turned our detachment from the frost-bound road into a field, and ordered half an hour's rest. We were all dead tired and threw ourselves wearily upon the snow-covered ground. The Sergeant-Major passed down the lines.

"Major's orders are that nobody must go into the road during the halt," he shouted.

Struggling with our equipment and heavy loads of ammunition, we collapsed upon the frozen snow, which crackled crisply beneath us. From the distance came the dull reverberation of the Austrianand Russian guns.

Never in my twenty years of life had I felt so miserable.
Probably most of my comrades of the 8th Infantry experienced much the same feeling. The Regiment was composed almost entirely of Czechs, but we were officered by Germans who knew very well that we loathed the Austrian cause and hated us accordingly. As a soldier, the Czech
suffered even more humiliating treatment from Habsburg masters than he had been accorded commonly in civilian life, and that had seemed the acme of injustice. The armies of His Imperial Majesty Franz Josef the First, Kaiser of Austria, and King of Hungary, had no love for their Czech
regiments…"
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