After the euphoria: a cacophony of voices from the primal catastrophe of the 20th century. "What Walter Kempowski created with his echo sounder for the Second World War has now also been realized for the First World War." NZZ "A breathtaking, multi-perspective close-up of the First World War, as it is not found in history books and cannot be," was already said about the comparatively modest introductory volume of the Hidden Chronicle - now the grand project is completed: A montage of over a hundred previously unpublished diaries from the time of the First World War provides a shocking, breathtaking, and thought-provoking picture of the first great conflagration of the world. The Hidden Chronicle is a massive collage of original testimonies from front-line and rear soldiers, recruits, working women, children, concerned family members, doctors, and staff officers.