
Blade of a Sword
Ernst Juenger and the 73rd Fusilier Regiment on the Western Front, 1914-18
Matthias Strohn(Author)
Osprey Publishing
Will be published approx. on 14. September 2023
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4728-3589-5 (ISBN)
Description
The enthralling story of the German 73rd Fusilier Regiment, the regiment of Ernst Juenger, author of the renowned Storm of Steel, as it fought through the major campaigns of World War I's Western Front.
Combining traditional military history with a trench--level soldier's view of the Great War, Dr Matthias Strohn tracks the experiences of an elite German regiment throughout the conflict, following the men who fought and died in the service of what would ultimately prove to be a futile cause.
The German 73rd Fusilier Regiment spent the whole of World War I on the Western Front and was one of the Imperial German Army's most elite units. Starting with the occupation of Liege, it took part in nearly every major campaign in the West, including the Champagne offensives, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele and the Operation Michael offensives. Using the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves, including Ernst Juenger, author of Storm of Steel, this engrossing story of a regiment at war presents the horror of trench warfare on a human scale, through the eyes of ordinary men-at-arms, as they fought for honour and survival in military history's most brutal theatre of combat.
Combining traditional military history with a trench--level soldier's view of the Great War, Dr Matthias Strohn tracks the experiences of an elite German regiment throughout the conflict, following the men who fought and died in the service of what would ultimately prove to be a futile cause.
The German 73rd Fusilier Regiment spent the whole of World War I on the Western Front and was one of the Imperial German Army's most elite units. Starting with the occupation of Liege, it took part in nearly every major campaign in the West, including the Champagne offensives, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele and the Operation Michael offensives. Using the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves, including Ernst Juenger, author of Storm of Steel, this engrossing story of a regiment at war presents the horror of trench warfare on a human scale, through the eyes of ordinary men-at-arms, as they fought for honour and survival in military history's most brutal theatre of combat.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
A 16-page black and white plate section.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4728-3589-5 (9781472835895)
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Person
Dr Matthias Strohn has published widely on 20th-century German and European military history and is an expert on the German army in World War I and the inter-war period. He was educated at the universities of Muenster (Germany) and Oxford. He has lectured at Oxford University and the Joint Services Command and Staff College at Shrivenham. Since 2006 he has been a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and in 2011 he was also made a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham. He holds a commission in the German army and is currently a member of the military attache reserve. He lives in Surrey, UK.
Content
(Subject to confirmation)
1. A normal unit in a normal garrison city?
2. Mobilisation and the first year of the war
3. The 'Lions of L'Esparges': The battles of 1915
4. A new form of warfare: The battle of the Somme
5. Hammer and anvil 1917: Arras, Third Ypres and Cambrai
6. The final push? The German offensives of 1918
7. 'Determined, but without hope': the final months of the war and the battle at Copse 125
8: The end and aftermath of the war
Bibliography
Index
1. A normal unit in a normal garrison city?
2. Mobilisation and the first year of the war
3. The 'Lions of L'Esparges': The battles of 1915
4. A new form of warfare: The battle of the Somme
5. Hammer and anvil 1917: Arras, Third Ypres and Cambrai
6. The final push? The German offensives of 1918
7. 'Determined, but without hope': the final months of the war and the battle at Copse 125
8: The end and aftermath of the war
Bibliography
Index