Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier : The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin

A wide-eyed teenager during much of the Revolutionary War, Martin recounts in grim detail his harrowing confrontations with gnawing hunger, bitter cold, and the fear of battle. This invaluable memoir from an ordinary man in extraordinary times is "one of the best firsthand accounts of war as seen by a private soldier." -- "St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch."