Author : Ian Passingham
Release : 2011-10-21
Genre : History
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All the Kaiser's Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All the Kaiser's Men write by Ian Passingham. This book was released on 2011-10-21. All the Kaiser's Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Convinced that both God and the Kaiser were on their side, the officers and men of the German Army went to war in 1914, confident that they were destined for a swift and crushing victory in the West. 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 reminds 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.