A Hessian Report on the People, the Land, the War of Eighteenth Century America, As Noted in the Diary of Chaplain Philipp Waldeck 1776-1780

A largely unexploited source of information on life in colonial America is to be found in the diaries of those German soldiers who came to America as the so-called Hessians during the American Revolutionary War. Of all the diaries, that of Philipp Waldec