Hanoteau, Jean (editor) & Hamish Miles (translator)

Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt Duke of Vicenza. Volume Two: The Retreat from Moscow 1812. [Cassell Pocket Library].

Cassell, London, 1950. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. red end-papers; Napoleon's Grande Armée reached Moscow on 14 September 1812. However, the army was already drastically reduced by skirmishes with the Russians, disease (principally typhus), desertion, and long communication lines. The army spent a month in Moscow but was ultimately forced to march back westward. It started to suffer from cold, starvation and disease, and was constantly harassed by Cossacks and Russian partisans, resulting in its utter destruction as a fighting force. Although Caulaincourt was openly critical of Napoleon's Russian campaign nonetheless the Emperor selected him to accompany him on his retreat & hurried return to Paris. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 171 pages. faint splash mark to rear cover. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Gilt titles spine & front. Includes index. / Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Military & Warfare; Russian Campaign; Napoleon; French Invasion of Russia; History. Inventory No: 4400.

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Hardie, Dr. Robert

The Burma-Siam Railway: The Secret Diary of Dr. Robert Hardie 1942-45

Imperial War Museum, London, 1983. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Illustrated by: Dr. Robert Hardie. Good Condition/Very Good. 9780901627261 map endpapers; Some 61,000 Allied prisoners of war were forced by their Japanese captors to work on the notorious Burma-Siam railway. More than 16,000 died from sickness, exhaustion and malnutrition, an average of one victim for every 28 yards of track. But for the skill, ingenuity and devotion of the Allied medical officers and orderlies the death toll would have been even higher. In appalling conditions, using surgical instruments improvised out of scrap metal and with totally inadequate supplies of drugs and dressings, they fought to stem the ravages of beriberi, cholera, malaria, tropical ulcers, dysentery and other diseases. Robert Hardie, a medical officer serving with the Fed rated Malay States Volunteer Force, spent over three years as a prisoner of war on the railway after the fall of Singapore. Throughout this harrowing period he kept a diary, which he managed to conceal from the Japanese despite numerous searches. It is a remarkable contemporary record written by a cultivated, objective and sensitive observer, whose delight in nature was a major sustaining influence during the darkest days of his captivity. In his efforts to combat disease and alleviate suffering, Hardie had to contend not only with the indifference, incompetence and unpredictability of the Japanese but also with a certain amount of apathy and selfishness on his own side. His diary, which has an immediacy inevitably lacking in other more retrospective accounts, vividly conveys the hardships, monotony and humiliations of life in the squalid and overcrowded camps which marked the course of the 'railway of death'. The text is illustrated with Robert Hardie's own wartime sketches and watercolours. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 192 pages. Dust Jacket is fully intact, no tears or chips, but carries signs of wear to corners. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Gilt titles spine. Multiple copies available this title. black cloth but with light sun fading to top edges of covers. Includes appendix & biographical index. Illustrator: Dr. Robert Hardie. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Second World War; Far East; Death Railway; 1940s; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0901627267. ISBN/EAN: 9780901627261. Inventory No: 2476.

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Keywords: BZDB227 Burma-Siam Railway/Second World War/Far East/Malaya/Japanese Prisoners of War/Death Railway Military & Warfare; Second World War; Far East; Death Railway; 1940s; Medicine & Health. Dr. Robert Hardie Unbranded ISBN: 0901627267 EAN: 9780901627261

Kardorff, Ursula von

Berliner Aufzeichnungen 1942-1945

Nymphenburger, Munich, 1976. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. written by a German journalist and writer - a striking and lively picture of life in Berlin during the war, relating life on the edge, the exchange between air raids and boisterous celebrations, the pain of parting from friends and finally, after 20 July 1944, the merciless wave of persecution; magazine article (German text) about author tipped-in to front endpaper; Size: Octavo (standard book size). 336 pages. Text is in German. Red titles spine;. illustrated by b/w. photo's.;. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Military & Warfare; Germany; 1940s; German Language; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 2455.

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Keywords: BZDB227 Berlin/Second World War/Wartime Berlin/Germany Military & Warfare; Germany; 1940s; German Language; Biography & Autobiography. Unbranded Ursula von Kardorff Berliner Aufzeichnungen 1942-1945 Biography & Autobiography