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Author : Eric Sloane
Release : 2008-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 044/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Diary of an Early American Boy 1805 by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book Diary of an Early American Boy 1805 written by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from a teenager's diary interspersed with the author's comments and illustrations depict the lifestyle and crafts of rural New England.
Author : Eric Sloane
Release : 2002-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 603/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Museum of Early American Tools by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book A Museum of Early American Tools written by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Eric Sloane
Release : 1965
Genre : Farm equipment
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Diary of an Early American Boy, Noah Blake, 1805 by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book Diary of an Early American Boy, Noah Blake, 1805 written by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jakob Walter
Release : 2012-05-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 563/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER by : Jakob Walter
Download or read book DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER written by Jakob Walter. This book was released on 2012-05-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grunt’s-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front—the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon’s Grand Army between 1806 and 1813. When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter was conscripted into the Grand Army of Napoleon, he had no idea of the trials that lay ahead. The long, grueling marches in Prussia and Poland sacrificed countless men to Bonaparte’s grand designs. And the disastrous Russian campaign tested human endurance on an epic scale. Demoralized by defeat in a war few supported or understood, deprived of ammunition and leadership, driven past reason by starvation and bitter cold, men often turned on one another, killing fellow soldiers for bread or an able horse. Though there are numerous surviving accounts of the Napoleonic Wars written by officers, Walter’s is the only known memoir by a draftee, and as such is a unique and fascinating document—a compelling chronicle of a young soldier’s loss of innocence as well as an eloquent and moving portrait of the profound effects of war on the men who fight it. Professor Marc Raeff has added an Introduction to the memoirs as well as six letters home from the Russian front, previously unpublished in English, from German conscripts who served concurrently with Walter. 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. Honest, heartfelt, deeply personal yet objective, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier is more than an informative and absorbing historical document—it is a timeless and unforgettable account of the horrors of war.
Author : Eric Sloane
Release : 2004-02-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 943/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Reverence for Wood by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book A Reverence for Wood written by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2004-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book underscores the important role that wood has played in the development of American life and culture. Covering such topics as the aesthetics of wood, wooden implements, and carpentry, Sloane remarks expansively and with affection on the resourcefulness of Early Americans in their use of this precious commodity.
