The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier Very solid - 1993
by Jakob Walter
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- Title The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
- Author Jakob Walter
- Binding very solid
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York New York
- Date 1993
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3
- ISBN 9780140165593 / 0140165592
- Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 7.72 x 5.04 x 0.58 in (19.61 x 12.80 x 1.47 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - Campaigns -, Soldiers - Germany - Biography
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.27
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Summary
Eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter served in the Grand Army of Napoleon between 1806 and 1813. His diary intimately records his trials: the long, grueling marches in Prussia and Poland, the disastrous Russian campaign, and the demoralizing defeat in a war few supported or understood. It is at once a compelling chronicle of a young soldier's loss of innocence and an eloquent and moving portrait of the profound effects of all wars on the men who fight them.
Also included are letters home from the Russian front, previously unpublished in English, as well as period engravings and maps from the Russian/Soviet and East European collections of the New York Public Library.
"Vivid and gruesome
but also a story of human fortitude.
It reminds us that the troops Napoleon drove so mercilessly were actually more victims than victorsa side of Napoleon that should not be forgotten."
Chicago Tribune
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- Library Journal, 01/01/2016, Page 47