November 1916 Photography And in the telling

And in the telling

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

tall and proud

no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow

Etaples amongst them – lies a deeply moving story

November 1916 Photography And in the tellingDescription 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,