In the spring of 1915, Sgt.
As Riess was in a very mobile unit, his memoir offers a personal view of much of Germany\'s Eastern Front from 4 A.
Referring to his battlefield diary and letters that he had sent home to his wife, while everything was still fresh in his mind he wrote this memoir of his five months fighting on the Eastern Front against the Russians. (Wachtmeister) Werner Riess of the Prussian field artillery was recovering from surgery at a military hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany.
In the spring of 1915, Sgt