Articles related to "Imperial German Army"

From a peacetime standing army of 870,000 men the grey coated war machine of the Kaiser eventually put almost fourteen million under arms to fight the whole western world

The Imperial German Army in WWI sought to break the static nature of combat on the Western Front in 1916 through the use of elite troops known as Stormtroopers.

Lili Marlene is a song based on a German poem of 1915 and turned to music in 1938. It became the favorite of troops of every nation during the Second World War.

In a war that began with million man armies of conscripts fighting it out toe to toe, the Royal Army distinguished itself in personal combat.

The smallest and shortest-lived of the White Armies; it came closest to capturing the old capital of St Petersburg in a brief campaign in 1919.

Used by the US and her Allies for more than sixty years, the M-2 series of flamethrowers have been the mainstay weapon of this class.

In military service for more than fifty years, the C96 Mauser Military Pistol ushered in the era of semi-automatic weapons on the modern battlefield.

German General Staff officer Lt Koeppen took leave from Berlin to win the Great Race for his Kaiser, and himself.