IN SERVICE OF THE KAISER: Uniforms & Equipment of the World War I German Soldier Painted by Friedrich Ludwig Scharf BY Charles Woolley  Military artists tend to paint the two extremes of the soldiers life; at one end the subject is rendered in his parade best uniform, pressed and spotlessly clean, and at the other extreme locked in heroic combat defeating his enemy.  Friedrich Ludwig Scharf took the middle road, painting the troops as they looked going about their daily duties. Scharf, on one hand an artist, had also been a career Jäger enlisted man, rising to the rank of Offizierstellvertrater  in 1918. He spent most of his wartime service on the Eastern front where he observed  and fought with the Cavalry regiments, as well as the Reserve and Landstur  troops assigned to that front. In his paintings the uniform historian and military modeler will find accurate and sometimes amusing representations of what Scharf actually saw: Ill-equipped Landsturmers with outdated uniforms, the Cavalry still mounted dashing about the Russian front, Flamethrower troops, ski troops and even a Franciscan monk in military service were captured in his watercolors and linoleum block hand-colored prints. This book is a must for the serious student of the uniforms of the German forces from 1910-1939, portrayed in the unique style of Friedrich Ludwig Scharf, 1884-1965. Squadron/Signal  oooooooooooooo  8 1/2  by 11 Inch Folio Trim Size 120 Pages HARD COVER WE HAPPILY COMBINE SHIPPING WILL INVOICE SEND ON REQUEST - OR - WILL REFUND OVERPAYMENT WHEN ITEMS ARE SHIPPED ☞   BUY WITH CONFIDENCE ☜    PLEASE DO HAVE A LOOK AT MY OTHER AUCTIONS   Thank You, George F. Cholewczynski 3 x 3.399  >1 lb      ✪    ✪    ✪   ✪