About the book: 1961 / The story of the Russian prisoner of war Grigory Paprotkin, executed by the German command, which forms the plot of the "Dispute about the Unter Grisha", was written by the writer even before the creation of this novel as the basis for his unpublished play, which he worked on in 1917–1921. The novel about Grisha is an anti-war novel, and among German works of fiction dedicated to the First World War, it took pride of place. Advanced criticism showed great interest in this work, which immediately brought Arnold Zweig wide fame in his homeland and in other countries. “The Dispute about Unter Grisha” stands out for the principles and depth of its subject matter, the vastness of its concept, the art of psychological analysis, the freshness of feeling, and plasticity images of people and nature, a strong and sharp plot, free, however, from adventurous and detective embellishments, which could be seduced by the adventure-filled escape of Sergeant Grisha from the camp and the judicial intrigues intertwined around the case of an escaped prisoner of war…