The years 1915-17 saw the Imperial German Army forced to adapt to the new realities of static trench warfare.

Prewar uniforms and equipment had to be modified, for both utility and economy; on battlefields ruled by machine guns and artillery the steel helmet reappeared, as well as masks to protect against poison gas. Fashionable cavalry regiments soon proved irrelevant on the Western Front; many were dismounted to join the infantry, while new units usurped their prestige - assault battalions, and the air corps.

This second volume in a three-part sequence offers vast detail on organisation, uniforms and insignia, illustrated with rare photographs and meticulous colour artwork.

Dr Nigel Thomas is an accomplished linguist and military historian, formerly at Northumbria University. His interests are 20th century military and civil uniformed organisations, with a special interest in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. He was awarded a PhD on the Eastern Enlargement of NATO and is now a freelance military author, translator and military uniform consultant.

Ramiro Bujeiro is an experienced commercial artist who lives and works in his native city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His professional background includes many commissions as a figure illustrator and strip cartoonist for clients in Europe and the Americas, including many years' work for IPC Magazines in Great Britain. His main interests are the political and military history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century.