Poles in Kaisers Army On the Front of the First World War. Ryszard Kaczmarek

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      Cover illustration: Courtesy of Benjamin Ben Chaim

      Polish edition: Wydawnictwo Literackie–Kraków 2014

      ISSN 2191-3528

      ISBN 978-3-631-81484-0 (Print)

      E-ISBN 978-3-631-82263-0 (E-PDF)

      E-ISBN 978-3-631-82264-7 (EPUB)

      E-ISBN 978-3-631-82265-4 (MOBI)

      DOI 10.3726/b16991

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      About the author

      The Author

      Ryszard Kaczmarek is a historian, professor at the Institute of History of the University of Silesia, and director of the Regional Research Institute of the Silesian Library in Katowice, Poland. His research interests lie in Polish history in the twentieth century, German history in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, and history of Silesia. He is also the author of several books and over 100 scientific articles published in Poland, Germany, France, and Czech Republic.

      About the book

      Ryszard Kaczmarek

       Poles in Kaiser’s ArmyOn the Front of the First World War

      The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles had to fight for the opposite sides of the conflict: Germany, Austria, and Russia. In the German army, regiments recruited in Poznan´, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania were considered as “Polish.” They were sent to the Western front and participated in the great battles of Arras, Verdun, and the Somme. Poles were also present on the Eastern front, in the Balkans, on the Italian front, and even in the colonies. An important part of the forgotten history of Poles in the Kaiser’s army was the relationship between Polish soldiers and German officers. In regiments recruited on the Polish soil, it was common to use the Polish language, and from 1917 Poles deserted to the Polish Army formed in France.

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      Table of Contents

I. Poles in Prussian Regiments Before the First World War

The Prussian Army

After the Unification of Germany

Poles in Prussian Regiments Before the First World War

The Recruit’s Training

II. First Fights in Autumn 1914

The Mobilization

Border Struggles

To the West

Baptism of Fire

Rossignol

Cutry

       Baslieux

       Always Marching

       III. In the Trenches of the Western Front

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