Description: Hardcover Cloth 467 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1979. Attractive white buckram boards and black embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners, some bumps to boards. Edges have the usual yellowing and spotting. An unclipped dust jacket smooth and clean with the usual shelf wear - a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. A translation of the diary written by Hessian mercenary Captain Johann Ewald during his service in the American Revolutionary war. Written with humanity, sensitivity, and humour, Ewald's diary discloses many previously unknown facts. His opinions of the British generals and his discussions of their operations, tactics and mistakes are both revealing and entertaining. Illustrated with thirty original maps in black and white. Appended are Ewald's impassioned love letters to an American, Jeannette Van Horn. Ewald was a captain with the Field Jager Corps sent to America, and served in most of the major engagements of the British army from the New York campaign of 1776, the Philadelphia campaign of 1777, the fall of Charleston in 1780, and operations in Virginia that culminated in the siege of Yorktown, and his subsequent capture.
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Signed By: NONE
Book Title: Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Book Series: NONE
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 1979
Type: HARDCOVER
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: NONE
Author: Captain Johann Ewald
Personalized: No
Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Crime & Thriller, Fairy Tale, Family, Parenting & Relations, History, Military, Romance
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: American History, Civil War, Crime, First Love, Love, Military History, Modern History, Parenting, Thriller, True Crime, True Military Stories, True Stories, World History, World War II
