The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
Marc Raeff(Editor)
Cassell Reference (Publisher)
Published on 26. September 1991
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-900075-37-7 (ISBN)
Description
When 18-year-old Jakob Walter was conscripted into the Grand Army of Napoleon, he had no idea of the trials that lay ahead. The long, gruelling marches on Prussia and Poland sacrificed countless men to Napoleon's grand designs. But it was the disastrous advance on Russia which tested human endurance on an epic scale. In Jakob Walter's account of his privations in Napoleon's army during the long retreat home from Russia to Germany, the reader can observe how he and his fellow conscripts were driven past reason by starvation and bitter cold; how men turned upon each other, killing for a half loaf of bread or tearing off each other's clothes in their grim fight for survival. Although there are numerous accounts of the Napoleonic Wars written by officers, Walter's is the only memoir by an infantryman from the ranks.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Illustrations
illustrations, maps, chronology
Dimensions
Height: 142 mm
Width: 215 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-900075-37-7 (9780900075377)
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Author
Volume editor
Introduction
Boris Bakhemeteff Professor of Russian Studies, Columbia University, USA
Translation
Content
The diary of a Napoleonic foot soldier - campaign of 1806 and 1807, campaign of 1809, campaign of 1812 and 1813; historic appraisal of Walter's chronicle; notes to the diary; writing home - six letters; notes to the letters; about the illustrations; chronology; place names; reading suggestions.