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Wilhelm Hartung recounts the experiences of the ordinary front-line soldier in his detailed memoirs. He describes openly and honestly the horrors of the great material battles in which he earned both classes of the Iron Cross. He vividly describes the horror of gas warfare, the slaughter in the trenches, as well as the silent death of the unknown soldier. The memoirs of this artillery officer take the reader out into the large-scale battles on the Western Front of the First World War, in which death was a constant companion.
In the late summer of 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War, two technically highly equipped armies of millions clashed on the emerging Western Front. After battles with heavy losses for both sides, the war of movement stiffened and a year-long war of positions of unprecedented proportions ensued. From now on, one type of weapon in particular determined the further course of the battles: artillery. No attack on an enemy position was possible without intensive prior artillery fire, and at the same time the defender let this attack collapse in his own fire. In the ever-increasing material battles, the individual soldier was literally lost. One of them was Wilhelm Hartung. Until the outbreak of the war, he had never been a soldier before, and even his registration as a war volunteer took several attempts before he was accepted into an artillery regiment. After basic military training, he was sent to the Western Front in Flanders at the turn of the year 1914/15, where he was initially employed at a measuring station. After promotion to corporal, he was transferred to a combat battery in June 1915, and quickly received further promotions to non-commissioned officer and vice sergeant. As such, he saw his first action as an artillery observer in the summer of 1915. The autumn battle of Arras in September 1915 was his first major battle and Hartung was used as a forward observer with the infantry.
Promoted to lieutenant (ret.) and continuing in the role of artillery observer, Hartung experienced the battle of Verdun until he was seriously wounded in the spring of 1916. After his recovery he was transferred to a 15-cm howitzer battery. He experienced the Battle of the Somme as a battery officer and again as an observer. This was followed by service as an independent platoon leader on the Vosges front in the winter of 1916/17 and in the double battle of the Aisne and Champagne in the spring of 1917. Appointed leader of his battery in July 1917, Hartung additionally continued to endure the months of heavy fighting at the Chemin-des-Dames as a front line observer and later as an artillery liaison officer. Hartung fought with his battery in the massive Third Battle of Flanders and supported the storming of Kemmel Hill in the German Flanders Offensive in the spring of 1918. After being seriously wounded again, he saw out the end of the war in a staff assignment.
In the late summer of 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War, two technically highly equipped armies of millions clashed on the emerging Western Front. After battles with heavy losses for both sides, the war of movement stiffened and a year-long war of positions of unprecedented proportions ensued. From now on, one type of weapon in particular determined the further course of the battles: artillery. No attack on an enemy position was possible without intensive prior artillery fire, and at the same time the defender let this attack collapse in his own fire. In the ever-increasing material battles, the individual soldier was literally lost. One of them was Wilhelm Hartung. Until the outbreak of the war, he had never been a soldier before, and even his registration as a war volunteer took several attempts before he was accepted into an artillery regiment. After basic military training, he was sent to the Western Front in Flanders at the turn of the year 1914/15, where he was initially employed at a measuring station. After promotion to corporal, he was transferred to a combat battery in June 1915, and quickly received further promotions to non-commissioned officer and vice sergeant. As such, he saw his first action as an artillery observer in the summer of 1915. The autumn battle of Arras in September 1915 was his first major battle and Hartung was used as a forward observer with the infantry.
Promoted to lieutenant (ret.) and continuing in the role of artillery observer, Hartung experienced the battle of Verdun until he was seriously wounded in the spring of 1916. After his recovery he was transferred to a 15-cm howitzer battery. He experienced the Battle of the Somme as a battery officer and again as an observer. This was followed by service as an independent platoon leader on the Vosges front in the winter of 1916/17 and in the double battle of the Aisne and Champagne in the spring of 1917. Appointed leader of his battery in July 1917, Hartung additionally continued to endure the months of heavy fighting at the Chemin-des-Dames as a front line observer and later as an artillery liaison officer. Hartung fought with his battery in the massive Third Battle of Flanders and supported the storming of Kemmel Hill in the German Flanders Offensive in the spring of 1918. After being seriously wounded again, he saw out the end of the war in a staff assignment.
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- Books (first-hand)
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- Hartung, Wilhelm/Möbius, Ingo
- Title
- Großkampf, Männer und Granaten: Die Erinnerungen eines Artillerieoffiziers im Ersten Weltkrieg 1914-1918
- Details
- 75 previously unpublished photos and illustrations 536 pp.
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