Diary of an Early American Boy 1805 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diary of an Early American Boy 1805 write by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Diary of an Early American Boy 1805 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpts from a teenager's diary interspersed with the author's comments and illustrations depict the lifestyle and crafts of rural New England.
A Museum of Early American Tools
A Museum of Early American Tools - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Museum of Early American Tools write by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2002-01-01. A Museum of Early American Tools available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Diary of an Early American Boy, Noah Blake, 1805
Diary of an Early American Boy, Noah Blake, 1805 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diary of an Early American Boy, Noah Blake, 1805 write by Noah Blake. This book was released on 1965. Diary of an Early American Boy, Noah Blake, 1805 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER
DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER write by Jakob Walter. This book was released on 2012-05-09. DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Reverence for Wood
A Reverence for Wood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Reverence for Wood write by Eric Sloane. This book was released on 2004-02-18. A Reverence for Wood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
