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This book takes a
look into the histories of each of the two
hundred and seventeen infantry regiments (and
eighteen light infantry battalions) that made up
the Imperial German army. We trace the regiments
of 1914 back to their roots as the famous
Potsdam giants, the Hessian mercenaries in
America, the Bavarians who allied to Napoleon
and the Prussians who arrived just in time to
defeat him at Waterloo. Their histories are many
and varied. Some of the earliest regiments had
their origins in Dutch, Swedish or British
service, while other later units were raised
from conscripts in annexed territories, many of
whom did not even have German as a home a
language but spoke Polish, Czech, Danish, French
or Alsatian as a mother tongue.
We also examine how
the different traditions of each regiment often
determined their uniform distinctions as royal
monograms on shoulder straps, battle honours on
their helmet plates or different coloured
cockades on their headdress.
The 250 page full
colour book is richly illustrated with period
photographs and paintings, dozens of photographs
of Pickelhauben in modern collections and
exclusive new illustrated charts of every
regiment.
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German Infantry Regiments'. Meanwhile, here's
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