Carl Rückert's Memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War

AvAlfred Kelly

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-22
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:442 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:203
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319958033

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
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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)

Innehållsförteckning

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.