Thursday, November 01, 2012

Borodino 1812, Napoleon's Great Gamble, Philip Haythornthwaite.

Borodino 1812, Napoleon's Great Gamble, Philip Haythornthwaite.

 Two thirds a history of the 1812 campaign and one third an account of the battle of Borodino itself, this is a successful shorter history of Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia. Gives a clearer view of a battle than is sometimes the case in longer works
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