Monday, February 25, 2013

1812 - The Great Retreat, Paul Britten Austin.

1812 - The Great Retreat, Paul Britten Austin.

The third part of a magnificent trilogy, this looks at the disastrous retreat from Moscow, where Napoleon's Grand Army melted away under attack from both the ever-present Cossacks and the bitter Russian winter. Based on eyewitness accounts of the disaster, this is a remarkable study of the horrors of war and the response of an army to a catastrophe.
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