Alfred Kelly

Gebundenes Buch

Carl Rückert's Memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Alfred Kelly is the Edgar B. Graves Professor Emeritus of History at Hamilton College, USA, and the author of The German Worker: Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-95803-3
• 1st edition 2019
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9783319958033
• ISBN-10: 3319958038
• Artikelnr.: 52866126

Rezensionen

"Alfred Kelly's translation of Carl Rückert's war memoirs offers an Anglophone readership a remarkable new perspective on the experiences of German soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War. ... it gives the reader an extraordinary sense of living alongside Rückert in his long march to the battlefields of Gravelotte ... ." (Karine Varley, European History Quarterly, Vol. 51 (1), 2021)