1812: The Great Retreat
1812: The Great Retreat tells the story of the end of the most famously disastrous campaign in history, using the words of the survivors to describe their desperate withdrawal from Russia. Napoleon's campaign had begun with more than a third of a million men setting our on what was to be a long...
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1812: The Great Retreat tells the story of the end of the most famously disastrous campaign in history, using the words of the survivors to describe their desperate withdrawal from Russia. Napoleon's campaign had begun with more than a third of a million men setting our on what was to be a long and terrible march to the glittering city of Moscow. Only 100,000 were to reach it. Forced to turn back in the face of winter's onset, almost nothing of the drastically reduced army lived to recross the Niemen River.
The author's previous books on the campaign - 1812: The March on Moscow and 1812: Napoleon in Moscow - brought the
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781853672460 (1853672467)
Publish date: 1996-11-01
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
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