"tales of a routed army" Topic
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Dropzonetoe | 18 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 |
Parzival | 18 Oct 2013 6:20 a.m. PST |
Go with the original: Anabasis by Xenophon. |
Streitax | 18 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 B | 19 Oct 2013 4:11 a.m. PST |
Try "Signal Catastrophe" by Patrick Macrory" about the British retreat from Kabul 1842 |
Dropzonetoe | 19 Oct 2013 4:37 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the suggestions! |
tkdguy | 20 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 | 21 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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