The second installment in this series is the memoirs of Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskii, who served with distinction during the Napoleonic Wars and wrote his memoirs shortly after the wars ended, with excerpts appearing in press in the early ...
The first of three volumes, this book represents the first English translation of the memoirs that rank among the best in the vast Napoleonic memoir literature.
This volume follows Radozhitskii across Germany as the Russian army, buoyed by the victory over Napoleon in 1812, marched on to liberate German states.
Delo 4135: Dossier with printed proclamations and orders. Published Material Alison, Archibald, Travels in France, during the years 1814-15: Comprising a residence at Paris during the stay of the allied armies, and atAix, ...
Yermolov is a legend in Russia. A man who rose from obscurity to command armies and conquer provinces, he was the epitome of a military man of action. To his...
This book offers a rare insight into the present Soviet Russian literary scene, and it will help refocus future studies of Russian literature.
The volume is illustrated with engravings and maps, contemporary with the manuscript, from the Russian/Soviet and East European collections of the New York Public Library.
Firsthand perspectives of German WWII infantrymen are rare, as respected historian Dennis Showalter (Tannenberg: Clash of Empires) points out in his excellent introduction. Bidermann, who is an 18-year-old private in...
The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material.
This remarkable volume introduces what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English.
Rifleman Harris was a natural story-teller with a remarkable tale to unfold, and his Recollections have become one of the most popular military books of all time.