+ Am J Soc 26:370 N ’20 150w + Booklist 17:11 O ’20
“It scarcely seems too much to say that this is the most human book that has been written on the effects of the war upon the populations of the countries that suffered most from the great conflict.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 7 ’20 420w
“His volume is one of the highest import. No more terrible exhibit of the nature of war has been written, not even by Philip Gibbs, Barbusse, Latzko, or Duhamel. The sacrifice of human values is portrayed in a plain, straightforward style, without any effort at a dramatic effect or an emotional appeal not inherent in the facts themselves.” D: S. Jordan
+ Nation 111:sup410 O 13 ’20 1200w
“Mr Folks speaks in a calm, temperate, judicial tone, piling up his facts, statistics, descriptions with cool judgment and restrained temper.”
+ N Y Times 25:12 Jl 25 ’20 2000w
“Mr Folks knows how to humanize statistics and make them yield up their hidden story of misery or hope.”
+ Outlook 125:431 Je 30 ’20 70w
“Dr Folks is well fitted for the task he has undertaken.”