9780946879595 - A Personal Narrative of a Private Soldier in the 42nd Highlanders von Anon (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: As New.

Zustand: Very Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION ? VERY GOOD light wear and scuff marks to boards, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. New Edition. 1996. New (facsimile) edition. [iv],vii-xxiii, 264pp. This copy is possibly lacking a title-page but may have been issued thus. Originally published in 1821, this book describes scenes of war as experienced by an anonymous Private who served in the 42nd Highlanders for 12 years during the latter part of the Peninsula War. Inspired by the narrative of an earlier published military diary entitled The Journal of a Solider of the 71st (1819), and having known our anonymous 42nd Soldier since childhood, the (likewise anonymous) editor of The Personal Narrative of a Private Soldier said to himself, "Why might not ******* write the personal Narrative of his Life, as 'a poor, but honest Soldier?'" Subsequently, having read the 71st Soldier's journal "with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret," the editor approached the 42nd Soldier and requested from him, via letters, "a brief but faithful relation of what he did and what he saw, from the time he enlisted till he was discharged in 1814." The book is bound in the original maroon boards with gold titling on the spine and gold titling with an illustration on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear to the boards and some dents on the fore edge of the front board. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription.