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

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Cover ; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: The Royal Saxon Army at war ; Chapter 3: The Year 1914 ; XXVII. Reserve-Korps ; XIX. Armee-Korps ; Infanterie-Regiment ; Chapter 4: The Year 1915 ; XXVII. Reserve-Korps ; XIX. Armee-Korps ; 58. Infanterie-Division ; 123. Infanterie-Division ; Infanterie-Regiment 105 ; Chapter 5: The Year 1916 ; 123. Infanterie-Division ; XXVII. Reserve-Korps ; XIX. Armee-Korps ; 204. Infanterie-Division ; 58. Infanterie-Division ; Chapter 6: The Year 1917 ; 24. Infanterie-Division ; 40. Infanterie-Division.;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 used to illustrate the wider story of thousands more who fought and died in Flanders 'for King and Country, Kaiser and Reich' with the Royal Saxo.