Index:Lay down your arms - the autobiography of Martha von Tilling.djvu
CONTENTS.
PAGE CHAPTER I. Girlish days. My first marriage and birth of my first child. My husband summoned to the Italian war of 1859 1 CHAPTER II. Period of war. A wife's anxieties. Terrible news 11
CHAPTER X. Early period of the war .... . . . 115 CHAPTER XI. War-sketches by a soldier who abhors war . . . . 231 CHAPTER XII. After Königgrätz. My experiences in a journey over the Bohemian battlefields in search of my husband 245 CHAPTER XIII. Prussian advance on Vienna. Life at Grumitz . . . .283 CHAPTER XIV. Festivities at Grumitz, followed by an outbreak of cholera which sweeps off nearly the whole family 303 CHAPTER XV. Period of mourning. Discussion with a military chaplain. Death of Aunt Mary .... 327 CHAPTER XVI. Threat of war between France and Prussia. Arbitration. Life in Paris during the exhibition of 1868 and afterwards in 1870. Birth of a daughter 356 CHAPTER XVII. Approach of war between France and Prussia. We linger in Paris. War breaks out 380 CHAPTER XVIII. The Franco-German war. Departure from Paris prevented by illness. Siege of Paris. My husband shot by the Communards 396 CHAPTER XIX. The end. " Hail to the future!" 420 |