THE GERMAN MOUNTAIN TROOPS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR – HISTORY, UNIFORMS, AND EQUI
Deployed on all fronts, the mountain formations developed into special units of high-alpine warfare, which placed special demands on the soldiers, then as now. In addition to the hitherto largely unexplored history of the first ‘snowshoe’ units, the main focus is on the campaigns in the Dolomites in 1915 and on the Isonzo in 1917.