Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier

Memoir of a Revolutionary SoldierA wide eyed teenager during most of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Plumb Martin left his grandfather's farm in Connecticut in 1775 and spent much of the next eight years with the Continental Army, crisscrossing the mid Atlantic states and returning north after the British surrender at Yorktown. His notes, penned when he was seventy, recount in grim detail his harrowing experiences during the conflict the staggering losses in human life, the agony of

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Each selection is presented here in the original Russian with an excellent literal English translation on the facing pages

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this thrilling account of a family’s struggle against overwhelming odds retains a lasting appeal for readers who admire the family’s loving spirit and the enterprising manner in which they prevail