He also studied chemistry at the Technical Universities of Hanover and Munich and completed his education in 1924.
Edwin Zeydel described Verdun as "one of the finest German war novels, thoroughly human without false heroism or sham.
"[3] He collaborated with a group of writers, which included Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach, Friedo Lampe and Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind, who met in the Berlin home of the Jewish doctor and patron Lothar Luft.
The Queen's Physician, about Johann Friedrich Struensee in the Danish court of Christian III, was a Book of the Month Club selection in 1949.
[2] His works have been translated into several languages such as Danish, English, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Czech.