AN ENGLISHMAN IN THE RUSSIAN RANKS
Written by John Morse
Published by Duckworth & Co.
in 1915
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- POLAND
- RUSSIA
AN ENGLISHMAN IN THE RUSSIAN RANKS
Written by John Morse.
Stock no. 1320175
1st.
1915.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Black cloth with red titles. Ten Months' Fighting In Poland. Spine and corners bumped. Cloth grubby and slightly faded to spine. Foxing to endpapers and textblock, textblock is grubby.
Front cover
Contents
- I. THE OUTBREAK OF THE GREAT WAR
- II. THE SCENE AT KALISZ ON THE 2ND AUGUST 1914
- III. THE EVENTS PRECEDING ACTUAL HOSTILITIES
- IV. THE FIRST FIGHT
- V. THE FIGHTING UP TO THE 26TH AUGUST
- VI. THE CAVALRY FIGHTING BEFORE KOENIGSBERG
- VII. THE FIRST INVASION OF EAST PRUSSIA, AND THE RETREAT
- VIII. THE KAISER NOT A SUCCESSFUL GENERAL
- IX. CHIEFLY PERSONAL MATTER
- X. THE FIGHTING ON THE VISTULA IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 1914
- XI. THE RETREAT OF THE GERMANS FROM THE VISTULA
- XII. AN INFANTRY RECONNAISSANCE
- XIII. THE BUTCHER'S BILL TO THE END OF THE 1914
- XIV. "DO NOT FIRE ON YOUR COMRADES"
- XV. SMALL AFFAIRS AND PERSONAL ADVENTURES
- XVI. A NIGHT ATTACK ON A BRIDGE-HEAD
- XVII. THE FIGHTING NEAR SKYERMEVICE ON THE 3RD, 4TH AND 5TH FEBRUARY
- XVIII. CHIEFLY GOSSIP
- XIX. THE FIGHTING BEFORE PLOOK
- XX. HAD MARCHING AND DESULTORY FIGHTING
- XXI. RECONNAISSANCE AND TRENCH FIGHTING
- XXII. FROM THE TRENCHES OF PRZASNYSZ TO THE CAMP OF MAKOW
- XXIII. A RIDE TOWARDS OSTROLENKA
- XXIV. A PRISONER IN GERMAN HANDS
- XXV. ADVENTURES DURING THE EFFORT TO ESCAPE
- XXVI. MY LAST DAYS IN RUSSIA