Description - All the Kaiser's Men by Ian Passingham
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. The Schlieffen Plan on which the anticipated German victory was based expected triumph on the Western Front to be followed by a decisive success in the East.
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 protracted trench warfare. 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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