fritz Posted 18 September , 2015 Share Posted 18 September , 2015 Now available in bookstores. The experiences of my grandfather in the First World War. He was Musketeer in Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment 163. He survived Hulluch, the Battle of the Somme, trench-fightings at Ypres, the Battle of Arras and over two years English captivity. Sorry in German, but with a great number of photographs and maps. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=die+abenteuer+des+musketiers+albert+krentel Any questions? Please contact me. Fritz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0ebus Posted 18 September , 2015 Share Posted 18 September , 2015 Hi Wolfgang! Wonderful news....congratulations! -Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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David Filsell Posted 18 September , 2015 Share Posted 18 September , 2015 Well done. Will you seek translation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 19 September , 2015 Share Posted 19 September , 2015 I read the extract on Amazon.de last night (it's different the than the extract on the uk site) - great stuff. I look forward to reading the rest of the book. Well done. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz Posted 19 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 19 September , 2015 Well done. Will you seek translation? Hi David, is this an offer??? You should know my English is very limited. Fritz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz Posted 19 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 19 September , 2015 I read the extract on Amazon.de last night (it's different the than the extract on the uk site) - great stuff. I look forward to reading the rest of the book. Well done. Charlie Hello Charlie, thank you for your positive assessment. Greetings to you on the lonely Harz mountains. Fritz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Feledziak Posted 19 September , 2015 Share Posted 19 September , 2015 Sounds like a great result and I imagine the section covering his POW status will be something to study. We'll done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 19 September , 2015 Share Posted 19 September , 2015 My Dear Fritz, I suspect your English is less limited than my German. My particular interest is in German Great War novels, diaries and personal accounts written by Germans, soldiers and non combatants, which have been translated into English - I have over 100 so far and am slowly, slowly, building a bibliography and commentary. There is no doubt about the growing interest in such books, although copies of many are extremely difficult to track down. English publishers are strangely frightened of such works now - it seems that the important German book about Junger published last year will go untranslated despite his fame. It might be worth tryng to find a good translatoe and having a pop at publishing an English language copy - although I fully understand the problems and risk in doing so. Best of luck with German sales. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 19 September , 2015 Share Posted 19 September , 2015 Well done Fritz and best of luck. Roy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz Posted 19 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 19 September , 2015 Hi David and Roy, thanks for your good wishes. Fritz P.S. Another pic of my grandfather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 20 September , 2015 Share Posted 20 September , 2015 Sounds interesting - I'll get a copy! Give my regard to the Harz Mountains (has the tree cover returned yet?), and remember, the known Hildesheim find was only a part of what got 'appropriated' after the Varus disaster... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 20 September , 2015 Share Posted 20 September , 2015 Sounds interesting - I'll get a copy! Give my regard to the Harz Mountains (has the tree cover returned yet?), and remember, the known Hildesheim find was only a part of what got 'appropriated' after the Varus disaster... I downloaded a copy yesterday and am really enjoying it. We still have plenty of trees and those that were blown down in the storm have been replaced. Unfortunately no silverware was hidden away in my cellar Gruß aus dem Harz Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 20 September , 2015 Share Posted 20 September , 2015 Fritz, Great news. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz Posted 20 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 20 September , 2015 Sounds interesting - I'll get a copy! Give my regard to the Harz Mountains (has the tree cover returned yet?), and remember, the known Hildesheim find was only a part of what got 'appropriated' after the Varus disaster... Trajan, you are always very well informed about German affairs. Here comes another pic of my GF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz Posted 21 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 21 September , 2015 Fritz, Great news. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz Posted 28 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 28 September , 2015 Another example of my material. The positions of IR 163´s companies in the battle of Arras April 9th 1917. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 6 October , 2015 Share Posted 6 October , 2015 Fritz I really enjoyed your book, how lucky you are that the letters and photos have survived. The letters your Grandfather wrote are a reminder of how important contact with home and normality was to the soldiers. Do you know what happened to the people mentioned in your Grandfathers note book, did they all survive apart from Karl? I presume Gef. Fürchtenicht was related to your Great Grandmother. How your Great Grandparents managed to scrape together tobacco etc for parcels to Albert when he was a PoW is quite unimaginable, they probably didn't have enough for themselves. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz Posted 7 October , 2015 Author Share Posted 7 October , 2015 Charlie, thank you for your positive criticism. What happened to my GF´s friends and relatives. His brother Heinrich (page 134) survived. So did Füsilier Heinrich Heine from Ernst Jünger´s Füsilierregiment 73. After the war Heinrich Heine was a grocerman in Salzgitter and always a guest when my GF celebrated his birthday parties. The others were not registered in "Verlustlisten". So I believe they all survived the war. On page 123. Musketier Säger survived. He had a furniture shop after the war. Musketier Friedrich Tonn died. He was wounded and died in a hospital in Mönchengladbach. His grave is still there on Hauptfriedhof. Unteroffizier Köhlert is most probably a relative of Albert´s patron in Semmenstedt, where my GF was trained as shoemaker. I should prove all this names in "Verlustlisten" exactly. I am just reading "Das Wäldchen 125" of Ernst Jünger. Very intersting analysis of trench-war in 1918. Wish you all the best Fritz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 7 October , 2015 Share Posted 7 October , 2015 Many thanks Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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