The Ordeal of Captain Roeder. From the Diary of an Officer in the First Batallion of Hessian Lifeguards during the Moscow Campaign of 1812-13.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Near Fine. Item #015427
Brown cloth with blue-quarter spine, 248pp. Fine in a very good, unclipped d/w, with some tears along spine and edges of jacket cover. A unique record of the tragic, winter carnage of Napoleon's Russian Campaign in Moscow and Vilna, and eventual retreat, from Roeder's first hand diary account.
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