Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army

In this WWI military memoir, a German medical officer chronicles his harrowing exploits on both fronts of the Great War. Born in 1893, Stephan Westmann was a medical student at Freiburg University when his country was drawn into the “war to end all wars.” In 1914, he left his medical studies to enlist in the German Army, and was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before moving to the Russian front. Despite his youth and lack of qualification, Westmann was promoted t