Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-1918
Subtitle: the List Regiment
By: John F. Williams.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Frank Cass
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.; Germany. Heer. Bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 16 -- History.; Soldiers -- Germany -- Biography.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Germany.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Using memoirs, military records, regimental, divisional and official war histories as well as Hitler's own words, this book seeks to reconstruct a period in Hitler's life that has been neglected in literature. Also a story of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry, or List Regiment. John Williams from University of Sydney, NSW.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A university of the trenches; title: The curative power of war; title: Cannon fodder; title: West Flanders 1914; title: Winter 1914-15; title: Neuve Chapelle 1915; title: Fromelles 1915; title: Nursery tales of 1915; title: Hugo Gutmann and the good soldier Mend; title: Fromelles 1916; title: Hell on the Somme; title: Declining fortune; title: 1918; title: Epilogue: the greatest commander-in-chief of all time.