The Great War from the German Trenches : A Sapper's Memoir, 1914-1918

Boer, Artur H./ van Boer, Bertil (EDT)/ Fast, Margaret L. (EDT)

McFarland & Co Inc（2016/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781476663685
• DDC分類 940.41343092

Full Description

Life in the trenches for German soldiers during World War I was every bit as hellish as it was for Allied troops. Arthur Boer survived almost four years of continual fighting on both the Eastern and Western fronts as a sapper (combat engineer) who found himself in the thick of major battles. He laid barbed wire in no-man's-land under machine gun fire, bet money on aerial combat above the trenches between Baron von Richthofen and the English, faced starvation and crushing boredom. His war diary describes all in gritty detail, including the horror of gas warfare, doomed vainglorious charges and his return home to a ruined Germany.

Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Hans Boer

Introduction by the Editors

Author's Original Preface to the Memoir

 1. The Call to Arms: A Mother

 2. 1915: Meeting in No Man's Land

 3. June 15, 1915: The First Attack

 4. The Battle for Rózan: July 18-24, 1915

 5. Transport to the Hospital

 6. A Time of Convalescence

 7. Back to the Barracks

 8. France on the Western Front

 9. The Stalemate in Champagne

10. Aisne in Champagne

11. Dirt, Lice, and Clay

12. We Do Not Live by Bread Alone

13. Verdun—The Battle at the Bois de Caillette on Ascension Day, June 1, 1916

14. Comrade Karl Höhle In Memoriam

15. The Ammunition Distributor in Champagne

16. Outside Verdun Once Again

17. The Marne Offensive: Breakthrough at the Chemins des Dames

18. Attack at the Crozat Canal

19. The Argonne, 1918

20. The Red Baron

21. The Offensive at the Marne

22. French Tank Attack

23. The Americans Arrive

24. The Last Events and Close

Index