Guest Bunker1917 Posted 5 January , 2005 Share Posted 5 January , 2005 Hello all, I am new here and found this forum while googling I have a question about a book I am looking for for more than 10 years now, it is called "Wir Kämpfer im Weltkrieg" by Wolfgang Foerster. I have the public/re-issue version of this book which also has the "Kämpfer an vergessenen fronten" in it, but the version I am talking about is the version in which the last pages have a sort of form that can be filled out with service details for veterans of WW1. The first time I saw this book was in Poland in 1993, but the owner didnot wanted to sell it to me. From what I can remember the book was with a black cover and had lots of pictures, drawings, photos etc. in it and was around 500 pages thick, really like a veterans remembrance book, I beleive it was issued arond 1919 or 1920. Can anyone please help me localize this book or do you know anyone who has it and is willing to sell it to me?? Or just give me any general help on this book, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 5 January , 2005 Share Posted 5 January , 2005 Go to www.abebooks.com. Enter Wir Kämpfer im Weltkrieg in the search box. Seems there is a plentiful supply, and pretty cheap. Quite whether they are the exact edition you seek is not easy to tell, but its worth looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bunker1917 Posted 5 January , 2005 Share Posted 5 January , 2005 Thank you very much, this brings me atleast 1 step closer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halder Posted 5 January , 2005 Share Posted 5 January , 2005 If it's the same book I have then it's about 500 pages long with a collection of letters and personal diary entries in, A4 sized, very heavy, in horrible Gothic script. An absolutely indispensable source (sorry, not parting with mine ) - and available on abebooks for about £12. Well worth getting, although there seem to be two versions, one of 500 pages and one of 900 or so. I'm assuming it's the same book, but different sizes. Another fine investment of Feldpostbriefe is Phillip Witkop's collection German Students' War Letters from Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bunker1917 Posted 5 January , 2005 Share Posted 5 January , 2005 There are 3 versions of the book, the 900 pages public version with the " Kämpfer an vergessener Fronten" in it; the 500 pages re-issue version and the 500 pages veteran version, which is quite rare because it has drawings, postcards, photos and a 2 pages form in it to fill in your WW1 service details in it e.g. unit, regiment, where u been on the westen front, if wounded yes or no etc. this version is very rare. And I am looking for the veterans version, as I allready have the 900 pages public edition and the version I saw in Poland 10 years ago was the veterans version in mint condition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halder Posted 5 January , 2005 Share Posted 5 January , 2005 Blimey, I must have got lucky. I've got the veterans' version with the bit at the back to be filled in. It's definitely not in mint condition, unfortunately (quite a few loose pages). Strangely, when I bought it about 12 months ago, it was the cheapest one on abebooks. Now it's going for up to £175. Out of interest is the 900 page version the same book or does it contain more letters/diaries? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 6 January , 2005 Share Posted 6 January , 2005 You may be iterested to know that there is a Germanbook with a similar title to your thread. Pillbox 17 by Carl Broger. It was published in English by Thornton Butterworth, London in 1930. If anyone is interested I can supply more detail. Extremely worthwhile "squad story", by an author known as "Germany's workman poet" who later adopted a National Socialist attitude Regrads David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bunker1917 Posted 6 January , 2005 Share Posted 6 January , 2005 Out of interest is the 900 page version the same book or does it contain more letters/diaries? Well, it has the book "Kämpfer an vergessenen Fronten" attached to it, which is about the naval war, spionage and the war in German African colonies and it has some nice pictures from the German army in their colonies in Afrika and some nice naval battle pictures. It is actually 2 shorter versions of both books combined in one book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halder Posted 6 January , 2005 Share Posted 6 January , 2005 Thanks. Time to invest via Abebooks once again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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