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    A Field Marshal’s Memoirs: From the Diary, Correspondence and Reminiscences of Alfred, Count von Waldersee
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    A Field Marshal’s Memoirs: From the Diary, Correspondence and Reminiscences of Alfred, Count von Waldersee

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    The present volume is the 1924 English translation of Field-Marshal Alfred Count von Waldersee’s memoirs by Frederic Whyte.

    “Field-Marshal Alfred Count von Waldersee’s Denkwürdigkeiten are in three volumes in the German edition. The two first, covering the years 1832-1900, were issued at the end of 1922; the third, covering the period August 1900-March 1904, appeared late in 1923. The entire work was edited by Herr Heinrich Otto Meisner, with the approval and assistance of the Field-Marshal’s nephew, Lieut.-General George Count von Waldersee, who contributed a brief Preface to Volume I. The nephew acclaims the uncle as ‘Christian, Nobleman, Prussian, German, Soldier and Servant of his Sovereigns.”

    “There is a second Preface by Herr Meisner, who abstains from panegyrics and merely explains how the work has been pieced together. The Field-Marshal, it seems, had intended eventually to prepare a book of Reminiscences for the press, but only a very few pages of the Denkwürdigkeiten as printed were written with a view to publication. They have been compiled almost altogether from private diaries, correspondence and memoranda. Hence the impression which they give of absolute genuineness; hence, also, much of their value as a trustworthy historical document. As the well-known critic, Richard Bahr, remarked in the Münchener Zeitung, the work presents in this respect a welcome contrast with many of the autobiographical volumes which have recently appeared in Germany—’self-justification-screeds,’ as he calls them. The Reminiscences which the Field-Marshal contemplated writing might, indeed, have had to be placed in the same category, but here we have the author almost ‘un-retouched,’ and almost as natural and as ingenuous as Pepys.”—Frederic Whyte
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBorodino Books
    Release dateJul 23, 2019
    ISBN9781789126976
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    A Field Marshal’s Memoirs: From the Diary, Correspondence and Reminiscences of Alfred, Count von Waldersee
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    Count Alfred von Waldersee

    ALFRED LUDWIG HEINRICH KARL GRAF VON WALDERSEE (1832-1904) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) who became Chief of the Imperial German General Staff. Born on 8 April 1832 in Potsdam into a prominent military family, von Waldersee saw distinguished service as an artillery officer, and became Prussian military attaché at the Paris embassy in 1870. This gave him insight into the French defences that would prove crucial in the upcoming Franco-Prussian War, in which he played a significant role. Later, as principal assistant to Field-Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, von Waldersee gained influence with the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, who promoted him Chief of Staff on his accession. In 1898, he was appointed inspector-general of the Third Army at Hanover. When the Peking legation compound was besieged by the Boxer insurgents in 1900, von Waldersee was appointed as head of an 8-nation relief force. Although he arrived too late to take part in the fighting, he conducted punitive expeditions which succeeded in pacifying the Boxers. At the end of the campaign, he resumed the duties of inspector-general in Hanover, which he performed almost until his death there on March 5, 1904, aged 71. FREDERIC WHYTE (1867-1941) was an English editor, reviewer and translator. He worked for the British book publishing houses Cassell & Co. and Methuen Publishing and was a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Born in 1867 and educated at Stonyhurst, he moved to Sweden during World War I, where he married Karin Lilja, of Jönköping, in 1916. In 1925, he published The Life of W.T. Stead, followed by a memoir on publishing house founder William Heinemann (1928), A History of the Queen’s Bays (The 2nd Dragoon Guards) 1685-1929 (1930), and the autobiographical A Bachelor’s London: Memories of the Day Before Yesterday, 1889-1914 (1931). He died at Djursholm, outside Stockholm, in 1941.

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