Carl Rückert's Memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War

AvAlfred Kelly

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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This book offers the first English-language translation of the finest soldier’s memoir to emerge from the Franco-Prussian War, titled With my Rucksack: The Unvarnished Campaign Memoirs of an Infantryman from the Year 1870 by Carl Rückert.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-01-08
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:306 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:203
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030070977

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Alfred Kelly is the Edgar B. Graves Professor Emeritus of History at Hamilton College, USA, and the author of The German Worker: Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization.

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“Alfred Kelly’s translation of Carl Rückert’s war memoirs offers an Anglophone readership a remarkable new perspective on the experiences of German soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War. … it gives the reader an extraordinary sense of living alongside Rückert in his long march to the battlefields of Gravelotte … .” (Karine Varley, European History Quarterly, Vol. 51 (1), 2021)

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1. Preface.- 2. Introduction.- 3. Part I: From the Homeland to the Frontier: From the Rhine to the Saar.- 4. Part II: From the Saar to the Moselle: From Spicheren to Mars-la-Tour.- 5. Part III: Battlefields and Battle: Vionville-Gravelotte.- 6. Part IV: The Field Hospitals and the Journey Home.- 7. Afterword.