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Dropzonetoe Fezian18 Oct 2013 5:37 a.m. PST

I am looking for historical accounts of individual soldiers or small groups attempting to make it home after being defeated in a rival land. era isn't important

Personal logo Parzival Supporting Member of TMP18 Oct 2013 6:20 a.m. PST

Go with the original: Anabasis by Xenophon.

Streitax18 Oct 2013 11:05 a.m. PST

ARG! I read an account of Italian alpine troops assigned in the Leningrad area. They were sent into the hills and then left on their own by the Germans, quickly made peace with the locals, hunted and farmed and when the Germans pulled out, the Orthodox priests gave them letters to give to priests on their way home to get them safely through. Can't bring it up on Google.

Paul B19 Oct 2013 4:11 a.m. PST

Try "Signal Catastrophe" by Patrick Macrory" about the British retreat from Kabul 1842

Dropzonetoe Fezian19 Oct 2013 4:37 a.m. PST

Thanks for the suggestions!

tkdguy20 Oct 2013 11:41 p.m. PST

I recommend Jakob Walter's memoirs Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier. Much of it deals with the Grande Armee's campaign in Russia.

ScottWashburn Sponsoring Member of TMP21 Oct 2013 2:01 p.m. PST

I've always sort of been fascinated by the Czech ex-POWs in WWI who ended up controlling long stretches of the trans-Siberian Railway during the Russian Civil War.

I found this book, although I haven't read it.

Bradley, John F. N., The Czechoslovak Legion in Russia, 1914–1920

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