Carl Rückert's Memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War

• Main Author: Kelly, Alfred (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe, Central-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Military history.; History of Germany and Central Europe.; History of Modern Europe.; History of Military.

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...

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.