Catherine Exley`s Diary: The Life and Times of an Army Wife in the Peninsular War 9780956384799

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Автор: Probert Rebecca
Название: Catherine Exley`s Diary: The Life and Times of an Army Wife in the Peninsular War
ISBN: 9780956384799
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Мемуары

История Европы

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Социальная история и история культуры

Наполеоновские войны

ISBN-10: 095638479X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 160
Вес: 0.18 кг.
Дата издания: 04.06.2014
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 6 black and white photographs, 3 black and white maps
Размер: 204 x 131 x 10
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The life and times of an army wife in the peninsular war
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Catherine Exley was born in Leeds in 1779. Aged thirty, she boarded a ship and sailed for Portugal. Her memoir of the years she spent following the 34th Regiment is unique, the only first-hand account of the Peninsular War by the wife of a common British soldier. Published shortly after her death as a booklet which has since been lost, Catherines Diary survived in a local newspaper of 1923 to be rediscovered by her great-great-great-grandson. It is difficult today to comprehend the hardships Catherine endured: of her twelve children, three died as infants while with her on the march; her clothes, covered with filth and vermin, often went unchanged for weeks at a time, and she herself more than once almost died from illness and starvation; shocked at the mutilation inflicted by muskets and cannons, she still had the composure to manhandle blackened corpses upon a battlefield in search of her missing husband when hardened soldiers could no longer stomach the task. Her diary is reproduced here along with chapters which bear upon Catherines experiences in Spain and Portugal, and which put her life and writings in their social context.

Catherine Exley`s Diary: The Life and Times of an Army Wife in the Peninsular War, Probert Rebecca