From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot: The World War I History, Memories, and Photographs of Leonhard Rempe, 1914-1921
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611213215 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 106 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Unlike so many of his fellow pilots, Rempe survived several crashes, and was shot down over Reims, France, in March of 1918.At war’s end, Rempe returned to a defeated Germany in the midst of turmoil and revolution and served briefly in a Freikorps (Free Corps) regiment dedicated to preserving the new government in Weimar against German Communists. In 1916, he exchanged his spurs for the cockpit and transferred to the Western front. Paul Rempe provides insight into the grim realities of Leonhard’s war while his father’s own memoir recalls his special comradeship with his fellow soldiers and airmen. Twenty-one-year-old Leonhard Rempe volunteered to serve Germany in 1914. He knew many of the pilots who flew in both fighter and reconnaissance planes, including Manfred von Richthoventhe Red Baron. From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot is his remarkable story.Rempe initially served as a cavalryman in the 35th (1st West Prussian) Field Artillery of the XX Armee-Korps, fighting in several bloody and significant battles against the Russians on the Eastern Front. B
Author is a friend and colleague. His dad was Author is a friend and colleague. His dad was a very unusual person. I think the book would make a very interesting movie.. "Three Stars" according to Nancy Cartsonis. Interesting,but not very detailed biography of the protagonist's experiences as an aircraft observer. Like many other young men of that time Peter Kilduff, book review editor, Over the Front Most of the 1914-1918 German airmen we read about are fighter pilots. That is no surprise, as, of the 81 aviation recipients of the Orden Pour le Mérite, Prussia’s highest military bravery award, 62 were army or navy fighter pilots and only one, Leutnant der Reserve Wilhelm Griebsch of Flieger-Abteilung (A) 213, was a reconnaissance pilot. Thus, it is unusual to see a new book about an “unkno
This is one of them, a rare and special account, the memories of a soldier who served his Fatherland in the trenches and the cockpit of a warplane and lived to reflect on those experiences late in his life. In an age where so many World War I histories simply rehash well-known material, From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot is a fresh and insightful look into those violent times by a man who lived them.” (Richard L. (Over the Front) . There are many histories, biographies, and memoirs about the Great War, but few books combine them into a single story. Bennett, former President of the League of World War I Aviation Hi