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  title info:
    title: Carl Rückert's Memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War
  name:
    name part: Kelly, Alfred.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVII, 203 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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. Lasting from 1870-1871, this was the war that made the modern German nation and set Europe on the path to World War I, and Carl Rückert offers an unrivalled worm's eye view of the experiences of common soldiers who fought in it. A Hessian lance corporal in the German army, he was a close observer of daily hardships, class tensions, the influence of nationalism, and the terrors of combat. He was gravely wounded in the war's decisive battle at Gravelotte, where he was among the first Europeans to face the horrors of breech-loading rifles, machine guns, and accurate artillery. Accompanied by an insightful translator's introduction and a wealth of footnotes, this book is an invaluable link to the everyday realities of the Franco-Prussian War.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Alfred Kelly.
  subject:
    topic: Europe, Central-History
  subject:
    topic: Europe-History-1492-
  subject:
    topic: Military history
  subject:
    topic: History of Germany and Central Europe
  subject:
    topic: History of Modern Europe
  subject:
    topic: History of Military
  classification: DAW1001-1051
  classification: 943
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319958040
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95804-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 180907
    record change date: 20191023231720.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-95804-0