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