Название: All the Kaiser's Men: The Life & Death of the German Army on the Western Front 1914-1918
Автор: Ian Passingham
Издательство: Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 075094241X
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 288
Размер: 52,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
Convinced that both God and the Kaiser were on their side, the officers and men of the Imperial German Army went to war in 1914, supremely confident that they were destined for a swift and crushing victory in the West. The much-vaunted 'Schlieffen Plan' on which the anticipated German victory was based provided for an equally decisive victory on the Eastern Front. But it was not to be. From the winter of 1914 until the early months of 1918, the war on the Western Front was characterized by trench warfare.