Carl Rückert's Memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War

Alfred Kelly is the Edgar B. Graves Professor Emeritus of History at Hamilton College, USA, and the author of The German Worker: Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization.

• 1. Preface.- 2. Introduction.- 3. Part I: From the Homeland to the Frontier: From the Rhine to the Saar.- 4. Part II: From the Saar to the Moselle: From Spicheren to Mars-la-Tour.- 5. Part III: Battlefields and Battle: Vionville-Gravelotte.- 6. Part IV: The Field Hospitals and the Journey Home.- 7. Afterword.

“Alfred Kelly’s translation of Carl Rückert’s war memoirs offers an Anglophone readership a remarkable new perspective on the experiences of German soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War. … it gives the reader an extraordinary sense of living alongside Rückert in his long march to the battlefields of Gravelotte … .” (Karine Varley, European History Quarterly, Vol. 51 (1), 2021)