The author of these pages is a man of energy and self-command. But he is something more. What gives the work a distinctive character is the profundity of its psychologic sense.
Daily Chronicle, March 24, 1916:—
It has grown out of the war, but it is more than a war book because it has thought, feeling, knowledge, and English readers of French will appreciate its great charm of style.
A. Billy in Paris Midi, Feb. 9, 1916:—
These pages are the diary of the man who, among all the French prisoners, was perhaps best fitted to understand Germany from within.
La Tribuna, Feb. 20, 1916:—
Though not a novel, it is as engrossing as a novel.
Daniel Lesueur in La Renaissance, March 18, 1916:—
Every one should read this record of imprisonment, whose realism—simple, trivial, and at times almost repulsive—is irradiated with a beauty which no work of romantic fiction can ever equal.
Marcel Rouff in Mercure de France, April 1, 1916:—