Fighting the Kaiser's War - Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek

Personal accounts of the Great War experiences of British soldiers are well known and plentiful, but similar accounts from the German side of no mans land are rare. This highly original book vividly describes the wartime lives and ultimate fates of ten Saxon soldiers facing the British in Flanders, revealed through their intimate diaries and correspondence. The stories of these men, from front-line trench fighters to a brigade commander, are in turn used to illustrate the wider story of thousands... Zobrazit více