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Description: | Privately printed volume (circa 300pp ts, including explanatory appendices) of the translated letters of brothers Victor and Walther Strauss, written to their parents between January - October 1915 while they were serving in the German Army (Wurttemberg Reserve Train, 26th Infantry Division, XIII Corps), documenting their service on the Eastern Front and, more briefly, on the Western Front during this period, describing the journey from southern Germany to Poland and their part in the advance of von Mackensen's Ninth Army from Lodz towards Warsaw, including the operations across the Bzura and Narew Rivers prior to the fall of Warsaw in August 1915, before being transferred to northern France in October 1915; the letters refer, amongst other things, to the atrocious conditions in Poland during the Spring thaw, the authors' dim view of the Poles and of soldiering, the large hauls of Russian POWs, plentiful supplies of food and comforts from home, agricultural work on an East Prussian estate, an inspection by Kaiser Wilhelm II (looking "old and frozen"), and the hospitality of the French.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2003-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Strauss, Victor | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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