8. Kürassier Regt. / 3. Feld Eskadron 
1914-1918 
 
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Kürassier Regiments and Equipment
Fosten, D.S.V. Cuirassiers and Heavy Cavalry:  Dress Uniforms of the German Imperial Cavalry 1900-1914
Almark Publications, London, 1973
Kraus, Jürgen Die feldgraue Uniformierung des deutschen Heeres 1907-1918
Biblio Verlag, 1999
Poseck, M. The German Cavalry 1914 in Belgium and France
Mittler and Sohn, Berlin, 1923.  (English Translation)
Wagner, Hans Das Kürassier-Regiment Graf Geßler (Rheinisches) Nr. 8 im Weltkrig
Kolk, Berlin, 1929
Walter, John The German Rifle:  A Comprehensive Illustrated History of the Standard Bolt-Action Designs, 1871-1945
Arms and Armour Press, London, 1979
   
German Army Organization, Command, Tactics, Reference, etc.
Asprey, Robert B. The German High Command at War:  Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War 1
William Morrow & Co., New York, 1991
Battery Press The German Forces in the Field:  November 1918
Battery Press (Reprint), Nashville, TN, 1995
Battery Press German Military Terms 1918
Battery Press (Reprint), Nashville, TN, 1995
Cron, Hermann Imperial German Army 1914-18:  Organisation, Structure, Orders-of-Battle
Helion and Company, England, 2002
Laparra, Jean-Claude and Hesse, Pascal Le Fantassin Allemand 1914-1918
Historie & Collections, Paris, 2008
(In French, but great photographs and can be purchased easily via the internet.)
London Stamp Exchange LTD. Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-one Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914-1918)
London Stamp Exchange Ltd., London, 1989
Mosier, John The Myth of the Great War:  How the Germans Won the Battles and How the Americans Saved the Allies
HarperCollins, New York, 2001
Nash, David German Army Handbook April 1918
Arms and Armour Press, London, 1977
Robinson, Janet & Joe Handbook of Imperial Germany
AuthorHouse, Bloomington, IN, 2009
Samuels, Martin Doctrine and Dogma:  German and British Infantry Tactics in the First World War
Greenwood Press, London, 1992
Sheldon, Jack The German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916
Pen & Sword Books, South Yorkshire, 2005
(The author actually has actually published a whole series of books covering the German Army on various Western Front battlefields.)
Watson, Alexander Enduring the Great War:  Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008
Zabecki, David T. The German 1918 Offensives:  A Case Study in the Operational Level of War
Routledge, London, 2006
   
The Home Front  
Kruppa, Hubert Deutz:  Ein Kölner Stadtteil mit großer Geschichte
J.P. Bachem Verlag,
Köln, 2001
Moyer, Laurence Victory Must be Ours:  Germany in the Great War, 1914-1918
Hippocrene Books, New York, 1981
   
Personal Accounts
Jünger, Ernst The Storm of Steel
Howard Fertig, Inc., New York, 1996
Nagel, Fritz Fritz:  The World War 1 Memoirs of a German Lieutenant
Der Angriff Publications, Huntington, WV, 1981
Rommel, Erwin Infantry Attacks
Greenhill Books, London, 1990
Rosenhainer, Ernst Forward March!  Memoirs of a German Officer
White Mane Books, Shippensburg, PA, 2000
Sulzbach, Herbert With the German Guns:  Four Years on the Western Front
Pen & Sword, South Yorkshire, 2003
von Unger, Kurt Drei Jahre im Sattel
Liebelschen Buchhandlung, Berlin, 1912
   
Novels
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Renn, Ludwig War
English language translation by Naval & Military Press
   


 

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