1st Edition
Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-1918 The List Regiment
By John F Williams
Copyright 2005
246 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Adolf Hitler enlisted in the Bavarian Army in august 1914 as a war volunteer. Fanatically devoted to the German cause, between 1914 and 1918 Hitler served with distinction and sometimes reckless bravery, winning both classes of Iron Cross. Using memoirs, military records, regimental, divisional and official war histories as well as (wherever possible) Hitler's own words, this book seeks to... Read more
1. A University of the Trenches 2. The Curative Power of War 3. Cannon Fodder 4. West Flanders 1914 5. Winter 1914-15 6. Neuve Chapelle 1915 7. Fromelles 1915 8. Nursery Tales of 1915 9. Hugo Gutmann and the Good Soldier Mend 10. Fromelles 1916 11. Hell on the Somme 12. Declining Fortune 13. 1918 Epilogue: The Greatest Commander-in-Chief of all Time
Biography
John Williams is a research fellow in the Dept of Germanic Studies, University of Sydney.
