The Great War from the German Trenches

The late Artur H. Boer was a professional engineer who lived and worked in Sweden after his emigration there in 1921. Bertil van Boer is a musician, conductor, composer and professor of musicology-theory at Western Washington University. The author of several books on 18th century music, he lives in Bellingham, Washington. Margaret L. Fast is the research and instruction services librarian at Western Washington University, serving especially the departments of history and modern & classical languages. She also lives in Bellingham.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Hans Boer

Introduction by the Editors

Author’s Original Preface to the Memoir

 1. The Call to Arms: A Mother

 2. 1915: Meeting in No Man’s Land

 3. June 15, 1915: The First Attack

 4. The Battle for Rózan: July 18–24, 1915

 5. Transport to the Hospital

 6. A Time of Convalescence

 7. Back to the Barracks

 8. France on the Western Front

 9. The Stalemate in Champagne

10. Aisne in Champagne

11. Dirt, Lice, and Clay

12. We Do Not Live by Bread Alone

13. Verdun—The Battle at the Bois de Caillette on Ascension Day, June 1, 1916

14. Comrade Karl Höhle In Memoriam

15. The Ammunition Distributor in Champagne

16. Outside Verdun Once Again

17. The Marne Offensive: Breakthrough at the Chemins des Dames

18. Attack at the Crozat Canal

19. The Argonne, 1918

20. The Red Baron

21. The Offensive at the Marne

22. French Tank Attack

23. The Americans Arrive

24. The Last Events and Close

Index