Table of Contents
PREFACE ..........7
SOME IMPORTANT EYEWITNESSES ..........9
Maps ..........12
THE EVENTS SO FAR ..........20
PHASE ONE: TO SMOLENSK
Chapter 1. 'A Word Unknown in the French Army' ..........22
Chapter 2. Borodino Revisited ..........43
Chapter 3. Getting Through at Viazma ..........59
Chapter 4. Handmills at Doroghobouï ..........75
Chapter 5. Snow ..........87
Chapter 6. Disaster at the Wop ..........103
Chapter 7. Flow Witebsk Was Lost ..........Ill
Chapter 8. Smolensk Again ..........121
PHASE TWO: TOWARDS THE BEREZINA
Chapter 9. The Icy Road to Krasnoië ..........140
CHART: Movements of the Various Corps, 13-20 November ..........151
Chapter 10. The Guard Strikes Back ..........152
Chapter 11. 'Marching, Marching, Marching' ..........175
Chapter 12. Ney's Amazing Exploit ..........192
Chapter 13. The Terrible News at Toloczin ..........205
PHASE THREE: ACROSS THE BEREZINA
Chapter 14. Struggles for the Borissow Bridge ..........216
Chapter 15. 'How Ever Shall We Get Through?' ..........235
Chapter 16. Two Fragile Bridges ..........249
Chapter 17. Partonneaux Surrenders ..........279
Chapter 18. Holocaust at the Berezina ..........288
Chapter 19. Two Prisoners ..........313
PHASE FOUR: BEYOND THE BEREZINA
Chapter 20. Cortège through the Snows ..........320
Chapter 21. The Emperor Quits ..........337
Chapter 22. 'The Very Air Seemed Frozen' ..........351
Chapter 23. Panic and Chaos at Vilna ..........366
Chapter 24. Ponari's Fatal Hill ..........391
Chapter 25. Ney's Last Stand ..........406
TWO EPILOGUES ..........424
NOES ..........426
INDEX ..........451
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