has a news paper clipping glued to the back cover and signed

(translated from German Wikipedia)
"Karl Bröger (* March 10, 1886 in Nuremberg , † May 4, 1944 in Erlangen ) was a German poet. Bröger was 1914 military service has been recovered. In December 1914, he was chosen for its early October in northern France suffered injury [2] dismissed as unfit for service. The experience of the First World War was crucial for his war poetry. It was for him the legitimacy of the military mission beyond question; because of the social-democratic part of the workforce remained loyal to the SPD-approval and entry into the war. So he formulated programmatically in his poem commitment - these lines were repeatedly taken up: -

But glorious it was your greatest danger, / that thy poorest son was your most faithful also. / Think it, o Germany.

His other war poems have become increasingly apolitical and later pacifist character (especially in soldiers of the Earth, 1918 and later flame, 1920); they face the reality of the struggle, the details of modern military technology to the forefront. By the end of the war, he emphasized the suffering and the camaraderie of ordinary soldiers, as well as in its widespread story bunker 17 (1929). In his Descent from the Cross Game (in flame, 1920) he theme of a war as a product of economic interests."