We are the Infantry

by Friedrich Lehmann, Michael A. O'Neill (Translator)

Overview

In "We are the Infantry", the first days of mobilisation in August 1914 through to the hell of Verdun in 1916 and the great Second Battle of the Marne in 1918, when the Germans gradually realise that they might lose the war, are all vividly captured in Friedrich Lehmann's WWI diary.
Recording his experiences and thoughts as he moves along the front-line German trenches, Lehmann's diary takes us through to his own final Armageddon when a shell that tears his comrades to shreds leaves him so seriously injured and unable to move that he can do nothing but wait for death.
How he cheats that final departure, and the touching memory of his father's gentle care for his incapacitated son, is part of the moving story of "We are the Infantry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855658354
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	11/06/2023
Series:	Dying for the Kaiser , #5
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

The writer and translator Michael A. O"Neill lived and worked in Germany for twenty years as a TV producer/director and scriptwriter on WWI, WWII and other historical documentaries. He wrote, narrated, and composed the music for the six-part 'Hitler’s War' TV series and has also written many biographies of such cultural icons as Queen, Sir Alex Ferguson, Alexander McQueen or rock gods the Rolling Stones and 70s idol Joni Mitchell.
His other translations include the two six-part series: 'In the Trenches of WWI' and 'Brothers and Comrades’, and a compilation of WWI photos, diaries and letters, 'Dying for the Kaiser'.