Memoirs of a Swiss Officer in the American Civil War by Rudolf Aschmann, Heinz K. Meier - 1972

Bern, Switzerland: Herbert Lang, 1972. First Thus. Hardcover. Ex-library/good. Rudolf Aschmann (translated by Hedwig D. Rappolt), edited with introducion by Heinz K. Meier. Memoirs of a Swiss Officer in the American Civil War. Bern, Switzerland, Herbert Lang, 1972. (Broadfoot, p. 300) History (and lack thereof) of Swiss soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War and biography of Aschmann, with annotated reprint of Aschmann's 1865 memoir, 'Three Years in the Army of the Potomac, or, A Swiss Company of Sharpshooters in the North American War.' Blue cloth hc, 8vo (23 cm), map endpapers, 184 pp; red, white and blue illustrated dustjacket. Good (ex-lib)/Good: ex-library with tape, stickers and minor markings, pages crisp; DJ bumped with small edge tears.