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In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres there Was Yser


by Paul van Pul

Postcard image of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Joseph, in the Secessionist style. The men are in a hexagonal lozenge, an image that may have been drawn from them riding in a carriage. Kaiser Wilhelm is wearing the uniform and shako of the Death's Head Hussars. Above the image, the word "Völkerkrieg" (people's war); below "1914; In Treue Fest" (fixed in loyalty).

Postcard of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Joseph, in the Secessionist style. Kaiser Wilhelm is wearing the uniform and shako of the Death's Head Hussars.

In Flanders Flooded Fields: Before Ypres there was Yser by Paul van Pul

Publisher: Pen and Sword, 2006

Copyright: Paul A.A. van Pul, 2006