War Diaries (April 11) (nonfiction)
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Benjamin Gilbert: April 11, 1781
Our situation is peculiarly unhappy as the Troops that are with us have not drawn one half of their winter Cloths and received but one month pay for more than a year.
—Benjamin Gilbert, soldier (letter to his father and stepmother)
- Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
George Beck: April 11, 1944
Today’s report from Deutsche Volksbeobechter “Odessa has fallen and now in Russian hands”. Other news says that Krim and Sebastopol are encircled. They’re doing marvellous and I can see the war being over this year if they keep it up. Still suffering with bad stomach awake all night.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
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- George Beck (nonfiction)
- Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)
- Reina Spiegel (nonfiction)
- War (nonfiction)
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External links
- Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
- Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine
- http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm