With Napoleon's Guard in Russia - The memoirs of Major Vionnet 1812, Louis Joseph Vionnet, trans. Jonathan North.
Fascinating memoir written by an officer in the French Imperial Guard
during the campaign in Russia in 1812 and the main part of the campaign
in Germany in 1813. Vionnet gets us to Moscow rather quickly, but
provides far more detail for the fire in Moscow and the desperate
retreat which destroyed the Grand Army.
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