Table of Contents

FORWORD by David G. Chandler ..........7
PREFACE ..........11

Chapter 1. Overture to 1812 ..........15
Chapter 2. The Rape of Poland ..........32
Chapter 3. Midsummer at the Niemen ..........39
Chapter 4. 'Get into Vilna!’ ..........53
Chapter 5. Bagration Gives Davout the Slip ..........76
Chapter 6. Problems at Vilna ..........93
Chapter 7. With the Advancing Columns ..........107
Chapter 8. First Clashes ..........123
Chapter 9. Battle at Ostrowno ..........131
Chapter 10. What Fézensac Heard on Mission ..........139
Chapter 11. An Army Vanishes ..........146
Chapter 12. Worries at Witebsk ..........153
Chapter 13. The Great Manoeuvre ..........168
Chapter 14. The Walls of Smolensk ..........178
Chapter 15. Smolensk - the First Shock ..........187
Chapter 16. Death in the Sacred Valley ..........204
Chapter 17. Stragglers and Prisoners ..........221
Chapter 18. Dust, Heat and Thirst ..........230
Chapter 19. The Gathering Storm ..........247
Chapter 20. The Mouths of the Guns ..........261
Chapter 21. Holocaust at Borodino ..........273
Chapter 22. The Butcher's Bill ..........315
Chapter 23. The Last Lap ..........329
Chapter 24. 'Moscow! Moscow!’ ..........337

NOTES ..........357
BIBLIOGRAPHY ..........386
MAPS ..........397
INDEX ..........405

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