1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia - Antony Brett-James - Hardcover - Good Nap12 serfdom and slavery

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by Isabelle Thorne

1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia - Antony Brett-James - Hardcover - Good Nap12 serfdom and slaveryIn June 1812 Napoleon set out from Konigsberg in Prussia with an army over 600,000 strong and marched nearly a thousand miles to Moscow. Six months later a pitiful rabble of wounded, frostbitten and demoralised men were all that relentless Russian attacks and the even more relentless onset of winter had spared of the once proud multitude. In this book Antony Brett James has recreated the Russian campaign and the retreat from Moscow through the eyes of