IMPERIAL GERMANY’S IRON REGIMENT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, War Memories of Service with Infantry Regiment 169 1914-1918 by John K. Rieth. Softbound, 324 pages, 6” x 9”. This book offers a rare English-language account of a premier German infantry unit, renowned as the “Iron Regiment” for it’s fighting record in the legendary 1916 Battle of the Somme, Infantry Regiment 169 was formed in Imperial Germany’s State of Baden in 1897. The regiment’s service spanned from the war’s first bloodshed at the battle of Mulhouse in 1914 and continued through it’s destruction at the hands of American Marines and Army tanks in the Meuse-Argonne Forest in 1918.   No. 703437