Egon Erwin Kisch, also known as the »Racing Reporter«, experienced the First World War as a soldier in the Royal and Imperial Army and participated in the Serbian campaign.
Kisch kept a detailed diary of events from his joyful departure into the adventure of war to his serious wound on the Carpathian front in March 1915. During the War his notes could not be published because his accounts of life at the front and of the horrors of war so blatantly contradicted the official version. A part of the diary was able to be published in 1922, then the full version was published in 1930.