Zero Hour (originally published as Fahnenjunker Volkenborn) is an autobiographical war novel by German author Georg Grabenhorst.
[de ][1] The book was initially published in Leipzig Germany in 1928 and was translated into English the following year.
[2] Zero Hour was later re-published by the University of South Carolina Press in 2006, with an introduction by Robert Cowley.
[4] The book follows Hans Volkenborn's experiences in the German army during World War I.
[8] The Miami News stated that it "does for a German officer what "All Quiet" did for the common soldier",[9] while a reviewer for The Window commented that "one feels that the author's memory of details is defective".