Werner N Riess

On the Eastern Front 1914

Meine Kriegserinnerungen
Herausgeber: Riess, Warren C

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Produktbeschreibung

In the spring of 1915, Sgt. (Wachtmeister) Werner Riess of the Prussian field artillery was recovering from surgery at a military hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany. Referring to his battlefield diary and letters that he had sent home to his wife, while everything was still fresh in his mind he wrote this memoir of his five months fighting on the Eastern Front against the Russians. As Riess was in a very mobile unit, his memoir offers a personal view of much of Germany's Eastern Front from 4 August through 31 December 1914, when he returned to Berlin for surgery. Werner Riess related what he did, what he saw, and what he felt. He left us a seemingly honest personal memoir, not edited by the filters and analyses of historical perspective. Because at the time he wrote the memoir Riess still did not know what had transpired out of his sight, the editor added annotation text and a local map to each chapter and included some pertinent material from his wife's diary. This first edition is in English, but includes a scan of his original memoir in German.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1797 House
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780971343849
• ISBN-10: 0971343845
• Artikelnr.: 58812597

Autorenporträt

Werner Riess was born in Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland) November 21, 1887. He completed his mandatory three years of military service in the German field artillery, then moved to Berlin, worked as a manager in a large department store, and married Gertrud Grumach, who lived three doors down the street. In the summer of 1914 they lived in Schöneberg. He was twenty-six years old and had become a partner in the department store. However, Riess was a corporal in the army active reserves and was sent to the Eastern Front as the Russians invaded in August 1914. He fought with a newly created field artillery battery, was promoted to cavalry sergeant, rewarded the Iron Cross for bravery, but became so ill in late December that he was sent to central Germany for surgery. Recovering in the hospital, he wrote his memoir while it was still fresh in his mind and reported to headquarters in Berlin where he continued his service. In 1916 he and Gertrud had a son. Werner Riess died in 1918.