1812. The Great Retreat

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1996
Edition: First Edition

Description: 464 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The third volume of this in-depth study examines Napoleon’s dramatic retreat from Russia with vividly detailed and newly translated firsthand accounts. Napoleon’s invasion of Russia was one of history's most disastrous military campaigns. Historian Paul Austin vividly captures the entire campaign in his magisterial 1812 trilogy. His previous books brought the Grand Armee to the empty victory over an abandoned Moscow, and on to the Battle of Maloyaroslavets, where Napoleon was forced to order a retreat for the first time in his entire career. 1812: The Great Retreat follows the army's withdrawal through 800 miles of devastated countryside, crossing the relics of the Borodino battlefield, fighting its way through the Russian General Kutusov's successive attempts to cut it...

ISBN: 1853672467