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Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good copy with clean pages. Previous ownership stamp to inside front cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A grunt's-eye report from the battlefield. The only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon's Grand Army between 1806 and 1813. 170 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Chronology. Fabulous copy.

Trade paperback. First printing [stated]. Glued binding. xxx, [2], 170, [4] p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes to the Diary; Notes to the Letters. Chronology. Place Names. Reading Suggestions. Jakob Walter (September 28, 1788 August 3, 1864) was a German soldier and chronicler of the Napoleonic Wars. In his later years, he wrote an account of his service in the Grande Armee, including a detailed account of his participation in the campaign of 1812, Napoleon's Russian campaign against Tsar Alexander I. This, together with Joseph Abbeel's diary, form the only known records of that campaign kept by common soldiers. In his later years he wrote an account of his experiences. The title translates to ("Memorable History of the Military Service Experienced by the Author of these Letters."). In 1932, scholar Frank E. Melvin, acquired the manuscript and authenticated it. Professor Otto Springer, translated the work into English, and they published it as A German Conscript with Napoleon. In 1991, Penguin Books re-issued the Springer translation in the United States and Canada under the title The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier. Good. Back cover creased. Cover has some wear, soiling, and small tears and chips.…