context: Despite opposing the war, he volunteered for combat duty first as a rifleman then as a radio operator, spending time in one of the worst sectors of the war before being invalided out by a lung infection after 15 months' service.
source: Werth was an unclassifiable writer with an acid prose, who wrote of the inter-war period as well as advocating against colonialism (Cochinchine, 1928).
reference_original: Werth fu uno scrittore non classificabile con una prosa acida, che scrisse del periodo tra le guerre e si espresse contro il colonialismo (Cochinchine, 1928).
reference_flipped: Werth fu una scrittrice non classificabile con una prosa acida, che scrisse del periodo tra le guerre e si espresse contro il colonialismo (Cochinchine, 1928).