All the Kaiser's Men [electronic resource] : The Life and Death of the German Soldier on the Western Front
Passingham, Ian2011
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The vaunted Schlieffen Plan on which the anticipated German victory was based expected triumph in the West to be followed by an equally decisive success on the Eastern Front. It was not to be. From the winter of 1914 until the early months of 1918, the struggle on the Western Front was characterised by trench warfare. But our perception of the conflict takes little or no account of the realities of life 'across the wire' in the German trenches. This book redresses that imbalance and remind us how similar these young German men were to our own Tommies. Drawing from diaries and letters, Ian Passingham charts the hopes and despair of the German soldiers, filling an important gap in the history of the Western Front.
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[Place of publication not identified] : The History Press, 2011
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9780752472584
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English
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2546357