We received the following press release--RL Greenhill will release shortly the three Paul Britten Austin's volumes: 1812: THE MARCH ON MOSCOW 1812: NAPOLEON IN MOSCOW 1812: THE GREAT RETREAT in one monumental trade paperback volume, of 1,184 pages. This volume brings together every page, every word, every illustration, that appears in the acclaimed, individual hardback volumes. Paul Britten Austin's wonderful, atmospheric trilogy draws on hundreds of eye-witness accounts by French and Allied soldiers of Napoleon's Russian campaign, allowing the reader to trace the course of Napoleon's doomed soldiers from the crossing of the Niemen in June 1812 to the catastrophic finale in the depth of the Russian winter. If you have not already read this brilliant study, which brings to life a landmark military campaign in all its tragedy and glory, now is your opportunity. If you have, the single volume 1812: NAPOLEON'S INVASION OF RUSSIA makes a wonderful gift, to introduce others to Napoleonic history. 1812: NAPOLEON'S INVASION OF RUSSIA by Paul Britten Austin will be released next month. For fuller descriptions of the individual books which are now brought together please go to the catalogue on the Greenhill web site at: WHAT THE CRITICS SAY: 1812: THE MARCH ON MOSCOW '...Powerful and unique ... it is a remarkable and unforgettable read.' - Empire, Eagles and Lions. '...Fascinating insight ... The reader is drawn along in the footsteps of the main French Army, day to day, as it makes its weary way towards Moscow ... highly recommended as essential reading for anyone interested in Napoleonic history.' - First Empire. '...The words 'unique', 'standard work', 'Jahrhunderten buch' and 'brilliant' are cliches often far too liberally - at least in this reviewer's opinion - applied by the literary clique (not to mention the publishers' blurb writers) to many a doubtless deserving, but all too rarely a genuinely outstanding, new publication. In the present instance, however, at least the first and last eulogisms are wholly deserved ... a closely-knit and totally compelling account ... the result is frankly stupendous ... for conveying the sheer realism of human experience there can surely be no comparable literary technique to be found in use today ... simply devastating effect. You almost smell the powder-smoke at Borodino, the stench of rotting human and horse corpses beside the line of march through that long, hot and dusty French advance, the hunger engendered by short rations - and many more human feelings and reactions. This is military life in the raw ... both the author and Greenhill Books - that doyen of Napoleonic publishing - deserve sincere congratulation and praise. This is not really a history book in the normal sense of the term - it is an experience and one not to be missed.' - British Army Review. '... Enthralling ... The story is as dramatic as it is massive in scale ... the narrative is superbly handled, swinging from the broad perspective of strategy to the experiences and feelings of the men trudging all those hundred of miles.' - Military Modelling. 1812: NAPOLEON IN MOSCOW '...The 1812 campaign was the single most important cause of Napoleon's downfall. Austin's volumes are a magnificent contribution to the history of that mighty enterprise.' - Andrew Uffindell, Military History. '...It is relatively rare these days to discover a publisher who will issue a trilogy on Military History. Mind you, Greenhill Books is currently being brave enough to re-publish Sir Charles Oman's seven volumes of A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR (1902-1930) ... but it must be unique for a full trilogy on a single year's historical campaign of one army, and its allies ... once the third element of the trilogy is published, a saga of 1812 will be complete. A brilliant description will be the result. Britten Austin will almost certainly have accomplished the equivalent of Abel Gance's silent epic and masterpiece of 1927. More than that cannot be said.' - British Army Review. 1812: THE GREAT RETREAT '...Already heralded as a classic ... The text is enriched with first-hand acounts which bring the whole narrative to life with an air of stark realism ... Britten Austin's acount of the army's withdrawal from Moscow is compelling. It is alive with detail and colour that tells of the disorganised exodus in which food and provisions were abandoned in preference to plunder ... The author spares us none of the horror. Some first-hand accounts are gruesome in the extreme, vividly telling of this ill-fated army in full retreat ... Britten Austin's trilogy truly ranks as a masterpiece, representing all that is to be admired in a research based work. Thoroughly readable, the lively text fully conveys the magnitude and drama of the events of 1812.' - John S. White, Waterloo Journal. '...Napoleon's 1812 campaign in Russia, the turning point of the Napoleonic Wars, has finally found its best chronicler ... Austin shoots his entire tale almost entirely in the literary equivalent of maximum close-up, using numerous, lengthy narratives ... For Napoleonic history in general and the 1812 campaign in particular, this is as good as it gets.' - Ian Thompson's Military Bookshelf, Daily Republic. '...Vivid and compelling ... The most detailed account of the disaster yet to become available in English.' - Dr Charles Esdaile, University of Liverpool, R.U.S.I. Journal. '...A splendid close to a splendid trilogy.' - Military Modelling. 1812: NAPOLEON'S INVASION OF RUSSIA will be available in August, 9 x 6in (234 x 156mm); 1,184 pages; 82 illustrations; 12 maps; paperback, price £29.95. ISBN: 1-85367-415-X. Greenhill Books, Park House, 1 Russell Gardens, London NW11 9NN. Tel: 0181 458 6314 Fax: 0181 905 5245 Web: www.greenhillbooks.com E-mail: Greenhill Books Back to 3rd Quarter 2000 List of News Items Back to Master List of News Items Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Coalition Web, Inc. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com