title: Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War (Modern War Studies)
author:  David M. Glantz 
description: Praise for David Glantz:<br /><br />"A superb historian and a brilliant detective."<b><i>New York Review of Books</i></b>
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  # How The Redoubt Was Taken
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Prosper Merimee
  
  
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  HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN
  
  
  By Prosper Mérimée
  
  
  Copyright, 1896, by The Current Literature Publishing Company
  
  
  A friend of mine, a soldier, who died in Greece of fever some years
  
  
  since, described to me one day his first engagement. His story so
  
  
  impressed me that I wrote it down from memory. It was as follows:
  
  
  I joined my regiment on September 4th. It was evening. I found the
  
  
  colonel in the camp. He received me rather bruskly, but having read the
  
  
  general's introductory letter he changed his manner and addressed me
  
  
  courteously.
  
  
  By him I was presented to my captain, who had just come in from
  
  
  reconnoitring. This captain, whose acquaintance I had scarcely time to
  
  
  make, was a tall, dark man, of harsh, repelling aspect. He had been a
  
  
  private soldier, and