8.Kompagnie,
Infanterie - Regiment Nr. 459

Here's our recommended reading list

There are so many books that one should just read to just study the war. Much less read to understand why anyone would want to reenact the Great War. We are trying to name a few that we have read and enjoyed.

Hell for that matter we've at least looked at the pictures.

	Scheiße! by Gertrude Besserwisser; Plume Books, 1994. ISBN # 045227211 Scheiße is a useful book for the German reenactor. With this book one can learn how to actually speak those phrases that real people use. Soon, you too will be swearing away - Es ist mir Scheißegal!
	All Quiet On the Western Front (Translated) by Erich Maria Remarque; Glosset & Dunlop: NY, 1929 ISBN # 0316739928 Germany's Iron Youth, represented by Paul Baumer and his friends, begin the war as teenagers, newly graduated from school, sure of the justice of their cause and the glory that will be theirs. When these young men are confronted with trench warfare, dying in hellish agony.
	The Storm of Steel : From the Diary of a German Stormtroop Officer on the Western Front by Ernst Junger ISBN # 086527423 This book was practically impossible to find for many years, which is remarkable, given its high quality. It is an extraordinary account of personal combat experience from World War I, written by a truly heroic young German soldier who was awarded the highest honor for outstanding valour, the Pour le Merite.
	Eye-Deep in Hell : Trench Warfare in World War I by John Ellis ISBN # 0801839475 This book has been referred to as the "WW1 Reenactor's Bible!" It is mostly composed of soldiers' accounts of their experiences of trench life and warfare, along with the emotional, moral, and spiritual dislocation that they endured. One quote from a German soldier on leave gives an idea of what horror they lived under, yet grew familiar with.
	Forward, March! : Memoirs of a German Officer by Ernst Rosenhainer, Ilse R. Hance (Translator) ISBN # 1572491582 The officer in question, Ernst Rosenhainer, spent the entire war as a lieutenant, and unfortunately his perspective never rises above that of a front-line soldier who'd better keep his head down if he wants to survive. Although the translator has provided short chapter introductions and situation maps depicting the broad lines of the engagements in which Rosenhainer was one soldier among up to a million.
	Fritz: The World War I Memoir of a German Lieutenant, by Fritz Nagel, edited by Richard A. Baumgartner ISBN # I really enjoyed this book! I read it while coming back from Belgium last year on the jet. So the book will always be great book to me.