Are You My Mother? (на англ.яз.) ISBN 0-679-89047-5

There are far fewer soldiers here than I thought there would be. I have not been able to find traces of more than a single corps of Germans-and we had expected them to have three or four, at the very least, concentrated in East Prussia as soon as the war broke out. At Augustowo they were even expecting an attack." "Then if there are so few as that, won't we advance?" "Ah, that I don't know! The Austrians, I hear, are very busy. They say they are moving already in great strength across the border, but that is far away from here, and it is not our concern. It is for us to keep the Germans so busy here that they will not be able to crush France before England can get her army into action. At the beginning it does not matter so much whether we win victories or not, so long as we can force the Germans to send many corps here instead of using them to invade France. But I have talked enough. Now-good-bye, and may God be with you here!" "Good-bye," said Boris, and Fred repeated Ivan's wish in Russian. Ivan seemed astonished. "So your mother taught you her mother tongue!" he said. "Ah, but that is splendid!" Then he was off. "Ivan might have been a great actor, I believe," said Boris. "See, isn't he the German to the life as he goes, there? No wonder he can deceive them so!" "It's pretty dangerous work for him, though, I should think," said Fred. "They wouldn't waste much time on him if they caught him, would they?" "Only the time they needed for a drumhead court-martial ...»