The Diary Of A Soldier

Author : Jakob Walter
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307817563

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DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER by Jakob Walter Pdf

A grunt’s-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front—the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon’s Grand Army between 1806 and 1813. When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter was conscripted into the Grand Army of Napoleon, he had no idea of the trials that lay ahead. The long, grueling marches in Prussia and Poland sacrificed countless men to Bonaparte’s grand designs. And the disastrous Russian campaign tested human endurance on an epic scale. Demoralized by defeat in a war few supported or understood, deprived of ammunition and leadership, driven past reason by starvation and bitter cold, men often turned on one another, killing fellow soldiers for bread or an able horse. Though there are numerous surviving accounts of the Napoleonic Wars written by officers, Walter’s is the only known memoir by a draftee, and as such is a unique and fascinating document—a compelling chronicle of a young soldier’s loss of innocence as well as an eloquent and moving portrait of the profound effects of war on the men who fight it. Professor Marc Raeff has added an Introduction to the memoirs as well as six letters home from the Russian front, previously unpublished in English, from German conscripts who served concurrently with Walter. The volume is illustrated with engravings and maps, contemporary with the manuscript, from the Russian/Soviet and East European collections of the New York Public Library. Honest, heartfelt, deeply personal yet objective, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier is more than an informative and absorbing historical document—it is a timeless and unforgettable account of the horrors of war.

Author : Ralph Scott
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9354442471

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A Soldier'S Diary by Ralph Scott Pdf

A Soldier'S Diary has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : ROBIN ABRAHAM
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684669202

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THE LAST LETTER by ROBIN ABRAHAM Pdf

The Last Letter is the love story of an Army officer since his school times, who did everything for the respect of his love. One look and John fell in love with Veronica. A love so deep that his life revolved around their promises. From the school classrooms to cafes to the corridors of NDA and across cities, John follows the path of love, yearning for Veronica. His aim is to become an Army Officer and marry Veronica. Veronica loves and supports him but will she wait for him? Do circumstances keep them apart or can love bridge the distance? The passion and ambition that drives him almost ruins him, until he realises the meaning of true love. Forgetting his passion, aim and himself in the struggle to earn respect in his own eyes, he wants to keep his promises but can he? When did he write letters? And even if he wrote letters, why was there a last letter? Let’s find out and go back to his school days………

Author : Alfred DiGiacomo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1425758797

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A Soldier's Diary by Alfred DiGiacomo Pdf

A Soldier's Diary is the story of an ordinary soldier and his daily routine. The author kept a daily diary of his time in the Army. It is through this Journal and family correspondence that details of the life of a G.I.-- the training, the routine duties, the drama of war, the release provided by passes and leaves. The challenges of living with the threat of death are revealed. Through personal narrative, key moments of the War in Europe are presented: the Normandy Beachhead, the liberation of Paris and Brussels,Buzz Bombed in Liege and The horrors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

Author : Alexander Ochogwu
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1725124572

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The Diary of a Boy Soldier by Alexander Ochogwu Pdf

The Creed of Brotherhood is the totem that binds Boy Soldiers of the Nigerian Military School, Zaria.

Author : Barroux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Children's stories, Danish
ISBN : 1907912398

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Line of Fire by Barroux Pdf

One winter's morning, illustrator Barroux was walking down a street in Paris when he made an incredible discovery: the diary of a soldier from the First World War. Barroux rescued the diary from the rubbish and subsequently illustrated the soldier's words. We have no idea who our soldier is or what became of him. We just have his own words about the first two months of the war, and Barroux's accompanying images.

Author : Major L. Louis Lee
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462065059

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The Diary of a Soldier by Major L. Louis Lee Pdf

The Diary of a Soldier recounts the World War I experiences of U.S. Army Sergeant Major L. Louis Lee from the day of his embarkation to France in April 1918 to the day his troop ship docked in New York the following February. Alternately inspiring, introspective, droll, and chilling, the Diary was written in a time and place far from the 21st century. Patriotism was more innocent. Communication with supporters at home could take weeks or months. Daily life was elemental. Yet common themes in the Diary bind the World War I years to today: the horror of war, the way soldiers cope with severe physical and mental stress, and the anchor provided by home, family and friends. The Diary of a Soldier offers a unique portrayal of one mans daily experiences in his eras war to end all wars.

Author : Georges Vanier
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459713017

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Georges Vanier: Soldier by Georges Vanier Pdf

East Sandling Camp. 1 June 1915 "Captain Boyer and I are leaving for London to buy a motor car for the regiment. We will be staying at the Savoy." Flanders. 27 October 1915. Diary entry: 4:00 p.m. "Returned to the trenches. After two days of rain, they are in a deplorable state. There is mud up to our knees. The parapets have collapsed in several spots. The nights are frigid, our feet are cold, and we have not yet received our supplies of wood and charcoal." In the field. 1 August 1918. "You will pardon the brevity and the looseness of this letter when you know under what conditions it has been written. What you wish to know above all I can tell you at once. I am well - in fact I do not think I have ever been quite so well in body and in spirit. I have been protected in a special manner during the last three days. I have seen so many narrow escapes myself that I am beginning to think that one should not worry much about possible eventualities." No. 8 British Red Cross Hospital, Boulogne. 6 September 1918. "By this time you will have received reassuring cablegrams and field postcards and possibly letters from friends of mine. "First, to be quite frank, I will admit that I have not been in fit condition to write a coherent letter ..."

Author : Dennis Hamley
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0749644184

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The Diary of a Young Soldier in World War I by Dennis Hamley Pdf

Author : Elmer W. Sherwood
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89081188336

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A Soldier in World War I by Elmer W. Sherwood Pdf

As a soldier with the 42nd (Rainbow) Division in France in World War I, Elmer Sherwood was an observer with uncommonly good judgment. If his descriptions lacked perfection they partook of an attractive innocence that brought out the truth of such battles as the horrendous Meuse-Argonne offensive that took 26,000 lives.

Author : Harinder Baweja
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788194110910

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A Soldier's Diary: Kargil the Inside Story by Harinder Baweja Pdf

Harinder Baweja, an Editor with Hindustan Times has earned a reputation as a fearless, committed reporter through her prolonged coverage of conflict zones. Her experience of covering the Kashmir crisis gave her access to a wide range of sources, particularly among the army units that were sent to Kargil. She covered the sharp, short war for India Today magazine, using her enviable range of sources to compile a definite account of the Kargil war. She has also edited and authored chapters for 26/11 Mumbai Attacked.

Author : Henri Desagneaux
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473841253

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A French Soldier's War Diary 1914–1918 by Henri Desagneaux Pdf

A classic up-close memoir of fighting in the chaos of World War I. Today, we may have an orderly historical picture of the Great War. But for a soldier like Henri Desagneaux, there was no pattern to be seen from the trenches, where he executed orders ensuring that dozens of men had to die attempting to achieve impossible objectives worked out at a headquarters in the rear. His diary, one of the classic French accounts of the conflict, gives a vivid insight into what it was like to execute those orders, and to live in the trenches with increasingly demoralized, unruly, and mutinous men. In terse, unflinching prose he records their experiences as they confronted the acute dangers of the front line. The appalling conditions in which they fought—and the sheer intensity of the shellfire and the close-quarter combat—have rarely been conveyed with such immediacy.

Author : Helga Herzog Godfrey
Publisher : Author House
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452040165

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WWII Diary of a German Soldier by Helga Herzog Godfrey Pdf

I was born and raised in Germany. After my father’s death, my mother spent many winters with my husband and I here in Florida. During these visits, she and I transcribed my father’s World War II diaries into German from the old “Gabelsberger” shorthand, which only Mama was able to read. Subsequently, I translated them into English. These diaries fortunately were discovered by my sister Sigrid in the attic upon the sale of the old family home after my father’s passing in 1989. She felt Mama and I should translate these books for the family. At a later point many friends and acquaintances encouraged me, to publish this diary, to document his thoughts, experiences, and innermost feelings from the beginning of his conscripted military service in 1939 through 1946, when he returned home after being released from a French POW labor camp. During the latter part of 1946 and into 1947, an epilog describes his daily struggles to return to normalcy, the resumption of his teaching career, and the search for food to feed his family. He describes his touching love for his family, as well as his anger and hatred for the insane war and its inept leaders. A war, he was forced to participate in as an ordinary German soldier. Many times he naively commented very unfavorably, sometimes using “choice words” about Hitler, the Nazi Party, and his superiors, a risk, if found out, could have cost him his life. I myself have many memories of the war and its horrors as a little girl without a father, spending night after night in a bunker, the “liberation” of our small town by the Americans. This has left deep and lasting impressions on me. Later on, I met a wonderful American with whom I fell in love and married, with my father proudly walking me down the aisle. This, in spite of the resentment he held against Americans, for shamefully turning him over to the French as a forced labor POW. I remember his sadness, when his little “Murschel”, as he used to call me, left for America with his conviction that if he was lucky, he may be able to see me only once more during his lifetime. However, he was able to enjoy many trips to the United States and I with my family visited my parents often in Germany. After reading his legacy, I knew, I have my beloved father’s permission to share his writings with others, and by doing so, honor his memory.

Author : Rufus Kinsley,David C. Rankin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052182334X

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Diary of a Christian Soldier by Rufus Kinsley,David C. Rankin Pdf

This book offers a meticulous reconstruction of the life of Rufus Kinsley - an ordinary New England soldier who during the Civil War became an officer in one of the nations's first and most famous black regiments - and an expertly edited transcription of Kinsley's hitherto unpublished wartime diary. Kinsley's diary sheds light on a long neglected theater of the war - the battle for the bayou country of southwestern Louisiana - and it illuminates the workaday routines of black and white soldiers stationed behind Union lines but thoroughly immersed in the unprecedented improvisations that accompanied the social revolution that was emancipation. Kinsley's perspective is that of a too often neglected type: the absolutely dedicated evangelical abolitionist soldier who believed that the war and its consequences were divine retribution for the sin of slavery. The introductory biography places Kinsley's civil war experience in the context of his life and his times.

Author : Teofil Reiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535342536

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In the Line of Fire by Teofil Reiss Pdf

"As usual, the medic, Wiatr, hid himself, the doctor had a panic attack and I decided do go by myself to the next trench in spite of the hellish artillery and canon fire. In the trench was Corporal Gorgel, who helped the officer. The scene on the front line was terrible. Blood, pieces of flesh, heads, arms, legs and intestines all around -an awful sight." Almost 100 years have passed since the end of World War I, also known as "the Great War". At the time, it was the largest war to date. Over 16.5 million people were killed in the war; more than 6 million among them were civilians. During the Great War, a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army fought at the frontline trenches and wrote daily in his diary, documenting his experiences there. This man, Teofil Reiss, was an Austro-Hungarian patriot, a professional soldier, a charming ladies' man, and a proud Jew. His practical perspective, trustworthy innocence and open heartedness, merge the details of this diary into a fascinating human document - a rare testimony of a frontline soldier and a picture of an honest man in a senseless war (though, not senseless to him).Almost 100 years after the war, his grandson Tuvia (who was named after him) made the decision to translate and publish his handwritten German diary, adding photos and letters, as well as an epilogue that tells the remarkable story of Teofil Reiss's life during the Nazis' rise to power, and until his death in 1942.