About this Book

Reed wrote The War in Eastern Europe as an eyewitness account of "how the different peoples [affected by the war] live; their environment, tradition, and the revealing things they do and say ... Robinson and I have simply tried to give our impressions of human beings as we found them in the countries of Eastern Europe, from April to October, 1915." Reed and Robinson traveled through Serbia, Bucovina (currently Romania and Ukraine), Galicia (currently Poland and Ukraine), Poland, Romania, Russia, and Turkey. Among other events, the book describes the 1915 typhus epidemic in Serbia and the Russian retreat from Poland to Galicia. Conversations with local people, soldiers, officers, and government officials are remembered for each nation, as well as aspects of life for local people (food, their daily concerns, their opinions on the war, etc).