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Author Roeder, Franz, 1774-1840, author.

Title The ordeal of Captain Roeder : from the diary of an officer in the First Battalion of Hessian Lifeguards during the Moscow campaign of 1812-13 / Helen Roeder
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge library editions: Military and naval history ; volume 20
Routledge library editions. Military and naval history ; volume 20
Contents The first encounter -- Venus and Mars -- Honey days -- The road to Rostock -- Four months at Rostock -- Greifswald to Kovno -- The captain sheathes his sword -- The march to Vitebsk -- Sojourn at Vitebsk -- The road to Smolensk -- Riding to Viazma -- The gathering storm -- The terrible month -- Prisoners of war -- Escape to the frontier -- Brief freedom -- Long imprisonment -- The order of release -- The return
Notes Originally published in 1960
Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 8, 2015)
Subject Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Contemporaries
SUBJECT Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 fast
Subject Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Russia.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Personal narratives, German
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Contemporaries
Military campaigns
Russia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Personal narratives
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
Author Roeder, Helen, 1909-1999.
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