Moltke in His Home (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... AT CREISAU I Went to stay for a few weeks at Ovesarum, in the early part of July, "our polar region," as Frau Helmuth von Moltke jokingly wrote in her kind invitation to me to visit her beautiful home, and while I was there I received the following letter from Herr Helmuth von Moltke, who had only returned to Germany shortly before this: --Creisau, 4.7/83. Dear Dressler, If you still intend to come here, I advise you to do so as soon as possible. My uncle Louis and his daughter are only staying for a fortnight, and the Field-Marshal wishes you to be here with him very much. Auf Wiedersehen. Yours sincerely, Helmuth Von Moltke. It was difficult to leave the beautiful and hospitable house of Count Moltke-Hvitfeldt, but it had always been my desire to see Creisau, which played such an important part in the life of the Field-Marshal, and after this letter I could not delay. I took the next boat which ran from Malmo to Stralsund, and from there, without making any break at Berlin, I went direct to Schweidnitz. I arrived about five o'clock in the morning, and should have had to wait three hours for the train on the branch line to Creisau. But I was impatient, and the wish to go to my dear FieldMarshal as soon as possible induced me to walk when I found that it was only an hour and a quarter distant. I took my bag and set out. A blue haze lay over the Eulengebirge of Silesia, the fields were rich with ripening corn, and the trees on the roadside were hung with delicious black cherries. The country people whom I met on their way to work, greeted me with the customary words, "Jesus Christ be praised," and a strange mood, half devout, half joyous came over me. Added to my enjoyment of the lovely fresh scene, was the pleasant prospect of seeing the THE WALK TO CREISA...