Memoirs of a Mercenary - Folio Society edition

Memoirs of a Mercenary

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Memoirs of a Mercenary
Folio Society
Biography & True Stories

Memoirs of a Mercenary

Johann Dietz
Edition year 1987
Binding Cloth
Translator Bernard Miall
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 222
Dimensions 22.7 × 15 cm

Edition details

Memoirs of a Mercenary, Being the Memoirs of Master Johann Dietz, Surgeon in the Army of the Great Elector and Barber to the Royal Court. Translated by Bernard Miall, edited and introduced by Mervyn Hodder. 11 B&W reproductions of sixteenth- and seventeenth century drawings and woodcuts. Full lilac cloth lithographed in black with a contemporary etching, pale lilac flecked endleaves. Pale grey slipcase. 22.7 x 15 cm. 222 pp. 

About the book

Memoirs of a Mercenary records the experiences of Johann Dietz, a surgeon in the army of Brandenburg's Great Elector and later a barber to the royal court. His recollections bring military life into contact with the precarious everyday world of seventeenth-century Europe, where travel, illness, violence and the search for employment could abruptly alter a person's prospects. Dietz writes from practical experience rather than a commander's viewpoint. The result is an unusual historical memoir of medical work, campaigning and survival, revealing the lives of people who seldom appear at the centre of grand military histories.

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