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A German Conscript With Napoleon
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Author : Frank E. Melvin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-04-01
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A German Conscript With Napoleon Jakob Walter S Recollections Of The Campaigns Of 1806 1807 1809 And 1812 1813 According To A Manuscript Found At Lecompton Kansas
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Author : Jacob Walter
language : en
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Release Date : 1938
A German Conscript With Napoleon Jakob Walter S Recollections Of The Campaigns Of 1806 1807 1809 And 1812 1813 According To A Manuscript Found At Lecompton Kansas written by Jacob Walter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with categories.
A German Conscript With Napoleon
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language : en
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Release Date : 1937
A German Conscript With Napoleon written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with English philology categories.
A Conscript For Empire
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Author : Philippe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-04-01
A Conscript For Empire written by Philippe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A young soldier thrown to the mercies of total war This is remarkable story of a young Rhinelander caught up in the whirlwind of war that raged in Europe in the early 19th century. As one of the smaller Germanic states his homeland was always in an ambiguous position between the great powers. His brother was a proud Cuirassier in Napoleon's Army and Philippe himself became-in his turn-a conscript in the French infantry sent to Spain to fight the British and Spaniards. Captured, he suffered privations and dangers until incarcerated on the prison island of Cabrera where he was offered release if he would change his allegiances by joining the Kings German Legion. The end of war found him in service of a military man with whom he travelled to the East in a British East Indiaman which struck a reef, throwing him into a hair-raising experience of shipwreck and the battle for survival.
Into Battle With Napoleon 1812
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Author : Jakob Walter
language : en
Publisher: Military History from Primary
Release Date : 2013
Into Battle With Napoleon 1812 written by Jakob Walter and has been published by Military History from Primary this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
This is the contemporary account of Jakob Walter, a Westphalian conscript in Napoleon's Grande Armée. Walter took part in the Emperor's campaigns against Prussia, Austria and finally, the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. This is what it really meant to "march with the Emperor". This volume is illustrated throughout with the watercolors produced by Albrecht Adam, another German who served in the ranks of Napoleon's armies, who witnessed many of the same scenes as Jakob Walter. Together the text and illustrations provide a powerful primary insight in to the events of 1812 as witnessed by the men who were there. This book is part of the 'Military History From Primary Sources' series, a new military history range compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. The series draws on primary sources and contemporary documents to provide a new insight into the true nature of warfare. The series consultant is David Mcwhinnie, creator of the award winning PBS series 'Battlefield'.
A German Conscript With Napoleon
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language : en
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Release Date : 1937
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The Conscript
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Author : Erckmann-Chatrian
language : en
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Release Date : 2010-04
The Conscript written by Erckmann-Chatrian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with Fiction categories.
Erckmann-Chatrian was the name used by French authors Emile Erckmann (1822-1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890), nearly all of whose works were jointly written. They specialised in military fiction and ghost stories in a rustic mode, applying to the Vosges mountain range and the Alsace-Lorraine region techniques inspired by story-tellers from the Black Forest. Life-long friends who first met in the spring of 1847, they finally quarrelled during the mid-1880s, after they did not produce any more stories jointly. Tales of supernatural horror by the duo that are famous in English include: The Wild Huntsman (tr. 1871), The Man-Wolf (tr. 1876) and The Crab Spider. Gaining popularity from 1859 for their nationalistic, antimilitaristic and anti-German sentiments, they were wellselling authors but had trouble with political censorship throughout their careers. Generally the novels were written by Erckmann, and the plays mostly by Chatrian. A festival in their honour is held every summer in the town of Erckmann's birth, Phalsbourg (German Pfalzburg), which also contains a military museum exhibiting editions of their works. Their other works include: Strange Stories (1857), The Conscript (1864) and Waterloo (1865).
Diary Of A Napoleonic Foot Soldier
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Author : Jakob Walter
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date : 2012-05-09
Diary Of A Napoleonic Foot Soldier written by Jakob Walter and has been published by Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Conscripts And Deserters
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Author : Alan Forrest
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1989-11-23
Conscripts And Deserters written by Alan Forrest and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-11-23 with History categories.
Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social fabric of local villages, and on the Napoleonic dream of bringing about a coherent and centralized state.
Conscription In The Napoleonic Era
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Author : Donald Stoker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-10-09
Conscription In The Napoleonic Era written by Donald Stoker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-09 with History categories.
This edited volume explores conscription in the Napoleonic era, tracing the roots of European conscription and exploring the many methods that states used to obtain the manpower they needed to prosecute their wars. The levée-en-masse of the French Revolution has often been cited as a ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’, but was it truly a ‘revolutionary’ break with past European practices of raising armies, or an intensification of the scope and scale of practices already inherent in the European military system? This international collection of scholars demonstrate that European conscription has far deeper roots than has been previously acknowledged, and that its intensification during the Napoleonic era was more an ‘evolutionary’ than ‘revolutionary’ change. This book will be of much interest to students of Military History, Strategic Studies, Strategic History and European History.