Hans Schiller

Hans Schiller was a seventeen-year-old student in Bromberg, Prussia, when World War I broke out in August 1914. He enlisted in the German army and was assigned to an artillery unit on the Eastern Front. Schiller left military service in May 1920, after years of conflict and combat.

His Kriegserinnerungen (literally, "memories of war") was written in 1928 and based on diaries, since lost, that Schiller kept during the war. A Tale of Two Fronts is an edition of the memoir that provides a vivid first-person account of German army life during World War I.