Concise illustrated history of the remarkable combat unit,
Sturmbataillon Rohr. At the beginning of the Great War, assault units did not
exist. If one was to compare the Caslow assault detachment (Sturmabteilung
Caslow) with the Rohr assault detachment then battalion (Sturmbataillon) which
succeeded it, it is easy to maintain that the former - an experimental
detachment - gave rise a year later to the latter, a remarkable combat and
training unit.
The book supplements existing works on the subject of the
Sturmbataillon Nr 5 (Rohr) and offers among other things an exceptional number
of illustrations in a small format, which has never previously been
available.
Indeed, it allows a closer look at this assault unit, showing
different aspects over a period of about three years. The text is drawn from the
account written by Schwerin and a number of other sources. It
particularly studies the circumstances in which the unit's fighting took
place.
