wurttem-burgers

Updated: June 14, 2025

In the trenches behind the slaty trunks of the great ash trees, Bavarian peasants, Saxons, and round-headed Wurttem-burgers, the olive-green, jack-booted Boches, awaited their coming, determined to hold the wood, the salient, and the city. The house in which our bureau was located was once the summer residence of a rich ironmaster who had fled to Paris at the beginning of the war.

Henry Beston - A Volunteer Poilu