Knut Werswick - From Human To Warrior

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Oppdatert: 11.09.2025
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Norwegian Soldier on the Western Front in 1918

Everyone interested in the First World War knows Eric Maria Remarques' "All Quiet on the Western Front". Several films have been made on his story. But it is fiction, although based on true experience. Now, from Norway, which stayed out of the Great War as neutral, comes something similar, but. This is a Norwegian volunteer's account of how the hell on the Western Front was in real life. This is a personal memoir, describing the horrors of the first industrial war based on personal experience.

This small gem of Norgwegian war literature has for the first time been translated into English, and thus made available to the general world public. All of Scandinavia was neutral during the Great War, but tens of thousands of their citizens took part in the fighting nonetheless. Mostly out of a yearning for adventure. A paradox, explained by the fact that Europe had been through a long period of peace since the Franco-Prussian war in 1871. People didn't know what a hell war is. Two generations after the last war, being a warrior was like an adventure, belonging to school books and children's games.

Therefore, many, many young volunteered to fight -- on both sides. Around ten thousand Norwegians signed up. Two thousand of them never returned home. They rest in the war-torn soil of Northern France.

This is the true story of one of the "Viking warriors" who survived. The author served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in 1917 and 1918. This is his account of his 11 months on the Western Front; the last 11 months of the war.