Michael P. Kihntopf is a retired U.S. Air Force officer as well as a retired high school history teacher. He has written two books about the Eastern Front of World War 1 along wit...view moreMichael P. Kihntopf is a retired U.S. Air Force officer as well as a retired high school history teacher. He has written two books about the Eastern Front of World War 1 along with numerous articles about the Great War that deal with such subjects as cooking in the trenches to a general retreat of the Russian army in 1915. He takes this expertise and couples it with a unique family history. Both grandfathers and their three brothers fought in World War 1 in the German army and participated in the post war Freecorps movements on the Baltic coast and in Germany. Their experiences along with his own Vietnam and Cold War experiences are melded in this book to create an individual picture of war and its effects on the individual.view less