# The silent Baltic

Author: Knox, Marcus

Genre: World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78033

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+silent+Baltic+Knox&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The weather was glorious and brilliant sunshine ripened the corn in the fields round the little town of Neustadt, near Kiel. All was peace. Women worked indoors or in the gardens and men at their fishing nets or in their boats. In the evening they sat on wooden benches in front of their quaint red-roofed houses, the men smoking, the women preparing the vegetables for the following day. Everywhere reigned contentment and peace--peace--peace! The golden sunshine, the violet shadows, the ripening corn impressed themselves indelibly on my memory. How plainly I can still see it with my mind’s eye, such a picture of sweet quiet life, perhaps for years not to be witnessed again.

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-silent-baltic-78033/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-silent-baltic-78033/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-silent-baltic-78033/chapters/3/index.md)