Re: Blood and Iron
Karl Wagner is a disgruntled middle-aged instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. He finds himself concerned about the direction which the German nation is headed in—just as he is killed by a terrorist attack. Only to awaken and find himself reborn as an infant, Bruno von Zehntner, the youngest son of a noble family renowned for its part in the German war industry a few years after the founding of the German Empire. Bruno, as he is now known, desires to rewrite history and ensure the German Empire emerges victorious in the coming century. And in doing so, finds himself entrenched in a world filled with Blood and Iron!
The Price of War
While war waged across the world, Germany, or more specifically the fatherland, was in a state of more or less tranquility. United together in its stand against the world, things functioned more or less than they normally had.
In Bruno's past life, the war had taken a toll on Germany by the end, with a lack of food becoming a serious problem for the German people. Starvation was rampant, and medical supplies were scarce. Even the soldiers found their rations becoming less and less frequent.
It was a similar thing in the war that followed. By 1943, supplies could hardly find themselves at the front with German units running out of fuel and ammo before they could finish off the enemy. It was the reason the Soviets won in Stalingrad, and the United States at the Bulge, despite sustaining significant losses prior to the collapse of logistics.