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All the Kaiser's Men: The Life and Death of the German Soldier on the Western Front
All the Kaiser's Men: The Life and Death of the German Soldier on the Western Front
All the Kaiser's Men: The Life and Death of the German Soldier on the Western Front
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All the Kaiser's Men: The Life and Death of the German Soldier on the Western Front

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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.
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Release dateOct 21, 2011
ISBN9780752472584
All the Kaiser's Men: The Life and Death of the German Soldier on the Western Front

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    While factual in some areas and interesting in its early observations of the Imperial German Army, the book quickly degenerates into a frantic effort to describe the British Army and especially Haig, as having won every battle on the West front from 1914-18. Disasters are ignored or described as being victories of attrition, or at least crucial learning experiences. German successes are explained away as luck or chance.

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