Description
| Product ID: | 9781841761848 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Elite |
| Title: | The German Freikorps 1918–23 |
| Authors: | Author: Carlos Caballero Jurado, Ramiro Bujeiro |
| Page Count: | 64 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Special and elite forces, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Special & elite forces, Germany, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This work charts the seemingly spontaneous growth of the "Free Corps" movement from the ashes of the Imperial German Army following the 1918 Armistice. It features accounts of dramatic and little-known campaigns inside Germany and on the Baltic and Polish frontiers. Osprey''s examination of German troops in the post-World War I (1914-1918) period. The troops returning home to Germany after the 1918 Armistice found their country riven by internal unrest, and its eastern borders threatened. Though reluctant to support the new Republic, the many Free Corps formed by ex-Imperial soldiers fought furiously against Communist revolutionaries at home and Polish and Bolshevik Russian pressure on the frontiers. Later providing much of the manpower for the new Reichswehr, the Free Corps would have strong links with the nascent Nazi Party. This concise account of a little-known but central episode in the history of 20th century Germany is illustrated with rare photographs, and ten colour plates showing unprecedented details of uniforms and insignia. |
| Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-09-25 |
