Diary of a Stosstrupp Leader

Guide to the Series

The Tactical Notebook has yet to complete the publication of this series.

Parts 1-10

Basic Training

Diary of a Stosstrupp Leader

Into the Trenches

Many Minenwerfer

Into the Woods

Diary of a Stosstrupp Leader

Repairing the Damage

The Russians Attack

Friendly Fire

On Watch

Rain

Parts 11-20

Lice

The Cliff

Fortunes of War

Wet Christmas

Detonations

A Better Enemy

Ice, Mice, and Lice

February 1917

Promotion

Transfer and Thaw

Parts 21-30

Russian Snipers (April 1917)

Machine Gun Course (May 1917)

Storm Troop Training (June 1917)

Live Fire and Leave (July and August 1917)

Reconstitution (September 1917)

Gas (October 1917)

Gas Chambers (November 1917)

The Road to Iwanice (December 1917)

The Locket (January 1918)

Christmas 1917

Parts 31-40

Shelter (January 1918)

Holzberg (February 1918)

Dusk Patrol (19 February 1918)

Friendly Fire (19 February 1918)

Cutting Wire (February 1918)

Ambush (February 1918)

Withdrawal (February 1918)

Recognition (February 1918)

Into the Woods (March 1918)

Orders are Orders (March 1918)

Parts 41-50

Practice (13 March 1918)

Failure of Fire (14 March 1918)

Rixecker Returns (15 March 1918)

Busted Balloon and Burst Bore

Cheek by Jowl (April 1918)

Source for the Series

Alwin Lydding Meine Kriegstagbuch (My War Diary), unpublished manuscript, Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) N 382/1

Source for the Photo

Vogel, Walther Die Kämpfe um Baranowitschi. Sommer 1916 (Oldenburg: Stalling, 1928)(Digital study room of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic)

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