Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918

by Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek, Jürgen 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 man's 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783463007
• ISBN13: 9781783463008
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.8"