War Diaries (October 27) (nonfiction)

War Diary entries for October 27

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Benjamin Gilbert: October 27, 1779

Got back to camp just before sunrise and meeting again at 8 o’clock we kept it up drinking all day

Benjamin Gilbert was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War whose kept a diary and wrote letters. The diary entries are terse and heavily abbreviated. They nearly always include a comment about the weather. There is very little information about actual fighting or battles, but they do frequently describe preparing to fight and moving from place to place. They contain information not usually found in descriptions of the typical activities of continental soldiers.

• Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org

Mister Park: October 27, 1943

At the request of a comfort woman, I withdrew six hundred yen from her savings for remittance and then sent it out via the Central Post Office.

Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese military brothels, also known as "comfort stations", in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman known only as Mister Park, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.

• Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager @ sdh-fact.com
• Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)
• Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager (nonfiction)
• War (nonfiction)
• War Diaries (nonfiction)

External links

• Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
• Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager @ sdh-fact.com
• Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager