BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: William Hermanns was born on July 23, 1895 in Koblenz, Germany, to a merchant family. His parents were Michael and Bertha. Mr. Hermanns earned a master's degree from the University of Berlin and continued his studies to earn his PhD. from the University of Frankfurt. His career consisted of being a German soldier during World War I from 1915 to 1920. He was released as a French prisoner of war in 1920 and was groomed for a diplomatic career in the League of Nations. He fled his homeland in 1934 due to Hitler's rule. He then began as a research fellow at Harvard University and lectured during the summer sessions. William worked for a professional occupation as a professor. Mr. Hermanns worked for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington DC. He volunteered for the German Army during World War I and became a prisoner and then sergeant and was awarded the Iron Cross and the Cross of Honor. He also had other writings, for example: Mary and the Mocker, Einstein and the Poet, Die Feder stockt and a few others. Some works in progress are Seed of the Last Days, rethinking philosophy and people. Another is the Theology of Violence, which are his individual experiences with Goebbels, Hitler, Puis XII and Mussolini. William Hermann's personal promise as an author began when he promised that if God saved him, he would serve him all his life. This pushes him to write about man's instinctive consciousness through his own particular involvements. Mr. Hermanns also does not believe in chance, but in coincidence and the significance of events that seem related. 1SUMMARY OF CONTENTS: The subject of this book was the personal experience of a soldier in the First World War. William's involvement took place from May 1915 to January 1920. The title of the book refers to the Holocaust, not Hitler's, but aspirations of being decorated he was a hero and a glory to Germany in the face of the horrors of poison gas , of trench warfare and the irreparable upheaval of daily life caused by war. He spent a year in the trenches of the Argonne Forest, two months in the Verdun sector, forty months in French captivity, and finally a full year rebuilding the destroyed area around Verdun after the end of the war. He established many relationships, self-epiphanies, not so favorable treatments and many other first hand events during his servitude which provide a very vivid picture of life as a soldier..