However, by the 1890s, the top ranks were opened to highly talented commoners. Subalterns / Staff Officers / General Officers / Dissolution The Imperial Army was abolished on 6 March 1919, and the provisional was created. See also German General Staff German Army Prussian Army Bavarian Army Schutztruppe German Army order of battle (1914) German Army order of battle, Western Front (1918) All Quiet on the Western Front (novel set in World War I about German Army comrades) Notes References Further reading Brose, Eric Dorn. The Kaiser's army: the politics of military technology in Germany during the machine age, 1870–1918 (Oxford University Press, 2004) online Citino, Robert M. The German way of war: from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich (University Press of Kansas, 2005) Clemente, Steven E. For King and Kaiser! The Making of the Prussian Army Officer, 1860–1914 (1992) online Coetzee, Marilyn Shevin. The German Army League: Popular Nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany (Oxford University Press, 1990) Craig, Gordon A. The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640–1945 (Oxford University Press, 1964) Demeter, K. The German Officer Corps in Society and State 1650–1945 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965) Feldman, Gerald. Army, Industry and Labour in Germany, 1914–1918 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) Foley, Robert T. "Institutionalized innovation: The German army and the changing nature of war 1871–1914." RUSI Journal 147.2 (2002): 84–90. online Herrera, Geoffrey L. "Inventing the Railroad and Rifle Revolution: Information, Military Innovation and the Rise of Germany." Journal of Strategic Studies (2004) 27#2 pp: 243–271. online Hull, Isabel V. Absolute destruction: Military culture and the practices of war in imperial Germany (Cornell University Press, 2004) Jackman, Steven D. "Shoulder to Shoulder: Close Control and" Old Prussian Drill" in German Offensive Infantry Tactics, 1871–1914." Journal of Military History 68.1 (2004): 73–104. online Kitchen, Martin. A Military History of Germany: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (Indiana University Press, 1975) Kitchen, Martin. The German Officer Corps (Oxford UP, 1968) Mitchell, Allan. The great train race: railways and the Franco-German rivalry, 1815–1914 (Berghahn Books, 2000) Murphy, Patrick. "The Effect of Industrialization and Technology on Warfare: 1854–1878." (2006) online Muth, Jörg. Command Culture: Officer Education in the US Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901–1940, and the Consequences for World War II (University of North Texas Press, 2011) Showalter, Dennis. "From Deterrence to Doomsday Machine: The German Way of War, 1890–1914." Journal of Military History (2000) 64#3 pp: 679–710. in