The Russian View of 1812

Napoleonic News Desk

by Paul Chamberlain

HarperCollins will also be publishing 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski in April (hardback, £20.00).

Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the terrible retreat from Moscow were a military epic and a human tragedy on a colossal scale. Napoleon's army was the largest ever assembled. The Battle of Borodino was a slaughter the like of which would not be seen again until the first day of the Somme in 1916, and the sufferings of the soldiers and their camp followers on the wintry retreat from Moscow were as poignant as any in history.

Adam Zamoyski has drawn on the latest Russian research, and a vast pool of first-hand accounts, to paint a gripping and vivid picture of the experiences of soldiers and civilians on both sides, and to show how the relationship between Napoleon and Tsar Alexander brought about a war that neither wanted.

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