My book has many authors, for it is eye witness accounts of the great war. For now I shall speak about one of my favorite ones. These are true stories. Walter Limmer of the German army writes home at August 7, 1914 to his parents and family. He speaks about how he misses them and wishes them well. He makes his words long and meaningful because he thinks they might be his last. He includes this in the letter saying to his parents, "Dear father, good mother, beloved brothers and sisters, please, please don't think me cruel for saying this, but it would be a good thing if already you would too, with brave hearts and firm self-control, get accustomed to the idea that you will not see me or any of my brothers again." This author must have been going through a environment and situation where survival is not only not expected, but death is almost certen. He was front-line for the estern offensive of the German army, only describable as a bloodbath for both sides. The author was very bravely going out and fighting for what he believed in. In his darkest hour he must have been thinking of the ones in life that have showed him the most love and kindness, that is why he wrote his family. The author see's himself as expendable, that is why he is so calm and sincere. He had to be going through a lot to achieve this state of mind. Unfortunately not more than a week later, Walter Limmer died in a military hospital with shrapnel in his esophagus. This story and stories like these are plentiful in my book. However these are just a few small stories compared to the number of people their are to tell them. History only remberes about one thousand figureheads from world war 1 to put in the history books, but the reality is there are so any stories, there is just not enough time to tell them all,