War Diaries (April 11) (nonfiction)

War Diary entries for April 11

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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)

• http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• George Beck (nonfiction)
• Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)
• Reina Spiegel (nonfiction)
• War (nonfiction)
• War Diaries (nonfiction)

External links

• Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
• Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine
• http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm