The military life of Joachim Reinhold von Glasenapp

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This book deals with the military career of Joachim Reinhold von Glasenapp, Lord of Tegelen Castle. It shows that he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the service of several armies of the Ancient Regime. For three years he also led his own regiments of hussars and dragoons. The book explains where his military career took him, what wars he fought in and what this ultimately brought him. The book is illustrated with 157 beautiful pictures of the uniforms and with maps showing how his regiments roamed Germany over several years.

And all against the background of the various wars in which he fought and the general development of warfare and light cavalry in the eighteenth century. At the end, today’s re-enactment regiment Frei-Husaren von Glasenapp is discussed, on the occasion of whose 25th anniversary (1996-2021) this book was published.

The book was presented on October 23, 2021 in the Schützen-Museum in Steyl (Tegelen), the Netherlands.

Authors: Drs. Marcel Dings, Oberst iTR Frank Poeth
224 pages, German and Dutch, 157 pictures and photos, Hardcover

Costs: 32,00 Euro (shipping costs included)
Orders to: frankpoeth@home.nl

Major General Eduard Freiherr von Albori

Temporary Commander in IR 59

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The new book by Otto Peter Lang is here. General Albori led the Rainer, IR 59, in Russia and Italy, in Russia the 4th Army and in Italy the 5th Infantry Brigade. He kept his own photo albums with his typical lettering. 380 of his photos on 200 pages in the strictly limited edition. Each book bears the number and name of the owner.

SWGR – Salzburger Wehrgeschichte Rainerforschung
Author: Otto Peter Lang
200 pages, 380 photos

For further information please contact the author directly: lang.otto@utanet.at

Stormed Fortress

War and Love in Times of Cholera and Typhoid Fever, Georg Reichlin-Meldegg, Language: German

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This novel reports on the extraordinary fate of the town and fortress of Przemyśl, which at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was located in the northeastern part of the crown land of Galicia, hard on the border with Russia, and had to withstand and survive fierce sieges three times in the period from September 1914 to June 1915. These were the fiercest battles for a city fortress in the 1st World War.

What was probably unique about these first assaults was that the civilian population of initially about 50,000 people was directly involved in the fighting – at least through heavy artillery and infantry fire as well as bombing from aeroplanes. The immediacy of life in mortal danger meant that, as the fighting intensified, the cholera and typhus pandemics and the famine began, the morality and strict separation of the sexes that had hitherto been upheld in the monarchy before a church wedding also began to erode.

The coming together in the confines of the city of more than a hundred thousand soldiers with the female youth of all classes, was not to be controlled by parental home and the church institutions, especially since also with the near collapse of industrial production, the activity of small trades and tourism for so many women survival was made possible partly only through prostitution. This is testified by many letters and writings of civilians and soldiers of all ranks, which the author had insight into.

But the “fortress” was also “stormed” by the love of an officer for the daughter of the commander: The author singled out a passionate relationship from all the misery and narratively showed that only the circumstances of war and violence led this love into the abyss. But their love went its own way and brought germinating hope to a world already sinking.

A novelistic, but historically verifiable document of the times, which could not be brought closer to today’s generation in a more impressive way.

About the author:
Mag. phil. Georg (Freiherr von) Reichlin-Meldegg, born 1948 in Bad Ischl, Upper Austria. Managing director of a PR agency until December 2019. Historian, publicist, book author of numerous biographies on military historical personalities. Bearer of the “Golden Decoration of Merit” of the Republic of Austria. Three-time laureate of the “Silver Pen” of the Association of Austrian Industrialists (VÖI), Vienna. Major iTR of the Riding Artillery Division No. 2 in Vienna.

Hardcover, Weishaupt Verlag, Graz 2021, numerous illustrations, 336 pages.

>> If you are interested, the book can be obtained from bookshops or directly from Weishaupt Verlag.
>> Comrades will receive a 20 % author’s discount if they place a collective order directly with the author.

Karl von Habsburg

Kaiserenkel zwischen den Zeiten, Christoph Matzl

As a border crosser between the world of the nobility and global politics, Karl von Habsburg remembers formative moments in his life. He tells of his childhood and youth, of animated conversations with Empress Zita and philosophizes about his political commitment, his work in the protection of cultural property, and goes into various things that are important to him in his life.

He gives insights into his private life and the turbulent everyday life of an imperial grandson and head of the Habsburg family in the 21st century.

A balance sheet, richly illustrated with exclusive snapshots and photos from the private family album of a great dynasty.

About the author:
Christoph Matzl, born in Lower Austria, studied history and English at the University of Vienna. Since 1992 editor and since 2001 chief reporter of the „Kronen Zeitung“.

Hardcover with dust jacket, four colors throughout, numerous photos, 180 pages. Carl Ueberreuter Verlag.