"Walter Jakob - book review" Topic
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| Sebastian Palmer | 24 Sep 2014 3:06 p.m. PST |
Received from Amazon UK today, and read / reviewed today: The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, by Württemberger Walter Jakob.
Ebner plate of the von Romig Regt, in which (if the wiki entry on him is correct) Walter served. Review posted on my blog: link Hope it might be of use/interest.
Cheers, Seb |
| 14Bore | 24 Sep 2014 3:48 p.m. PST |
Picked this up quite a few years ago. A great read. |
 Extra Crispy  | 24 Sep 2014 7:28 p.m. PST |
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 Flashman14  | 25 Sep 2014 4:09 a.m. PST |
I read it ages ago and remember liking it. I agree that the middle ranks have the best memoirs. I own, but have not yet read, any of the many British peninsular accounts by the enlisted men and nco's, but for the Empire, Parquin, Borgogne are hard to beat. The Russian, Davidov, is similarly situated but advances rapidly and becomes a literary figure which uniquely flavors his sometimes braggadocian accounts. |
| Tyler326 | 25 Sep 2014 4:13 a.m. PST |
One of the first I read on Napoleonic warfare. Great reading. |
| von Winterfeldt | 25 Sep 2014 4:45 a.m. PST |
for the empire a lot more interesting than those of Parquin or Bourgogne are available most in French – like Girod de l'Ain or even English translations such as de Gonneville, I agree lowest ranks (NCOs) and middle ranks up to Colonel are usually the best reads. |
| Sapeur | 25 Sep 2014 4:50 a.m. PST |
Just got the 'last' copy from World of Books Ltd at £0.38 GBP plus postage. |
| rabbit | 25 Sep 2014 10:24 a.m. PST |
Fantastic book, well worth 38p a little over $0.6 USD, for those across the pond. Amazing how he grows up during the period and how his attitudes changed. Interesting series of letters, subject to censorship of the day at the end of the book (in my edition anyway). letters were just not forwarded it would appear, no redaction, just not posted on. Letters were recovered by the Russians and now held in some archive somewhere… rabbit |
| Sebastian Palmer | 25 Sep 2014 12:24 p.m. PST |
Mine was pretty cheap, at 1p… plus the standard £2.80 GBP Amazon reseller postage; sometimes that postage figure is different, but I buy a lot from Amazon like that, and £2.81 GBP is a very familiar figure! My edition (Windrush Press) also has those letters at the back, which I do mention a little in my blog review.
Apparently another ranker, Joseph Abbeel, a Belgian, has also left us a view from the bottom of the 1812 campaign, but at present it's only available in Dutch and French, neither of which I can read easily enough to make buying that one a very likely option! Has anyone read the Abbeel book? And if so, what do you make of it? |
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