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Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914, Vol. I, August to October


by J. E. Edmonds

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.

Military Operation France and Belgium, 1914: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne, and the Aisne, August-October, 1914. Compiled by Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds C.B., C.M.G., R.E. (Retired), p.s.c., Edmonds. Maps and sketches compiled by Major A. F. Becke R.A. (Retired), Hon. M.A. (Oxon.)

Publisher: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1925

Copyright: Second Edition 1925