Life in the Imperial German army around 1900, following officers and conscripts through drill, mess-room politics, love affairs and the routine harshness of the barracks. The title poses the question that stung the Kaiser’s Germany: was its army heading for a triumph like Sedan in 1870, or a collapse like Prussia’s at Jena in 1806?
Praised as realism and denounced as a libel on the army, it remains a sharp portrait of the force that marched in 1914. Download the free EPUB.