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Istanbul in times of war: The startling 1918 memoirs of the German private Georg Steinbach
Istanbul in times of war: The startling 1918 memoirs of the German private Georg Steinbach
Georg Steinbach’s War Memoirs recounts the experiences of a German soldier deployed to Istanbul during the First World War. In the spring of 1918, as a 19-year old conscript, Steinbach volunteered for the German Asia Forces, —the “Pasha Army.” Rather than fighting in the trenches of the eastern front, however, Steinbach, was to spend the […]