In 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 those who took part on both sides - some of them leading actors in the tragedy, others writers and diarists whose contemporary accounts reflect the impact of the campaign on the European scene, and still others who suffered the privations and brutality of war without understanding the reasons or meaning behind it all. The result is a narrative of compelling interest.
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