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10 lip 2024 · Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and the terrible retreat from Moscow were a military epic and a human tragedy on a colossal scale – history’s first example of total war. But the campaign of 1812 was not just a war on Russia: it was the climax of a long duel between two emperors for supremacy in Europe
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March is a non-fiction book analysing the events and circumstances during the French Invasion of Russia and the events during the reign of Napoleon, which would, ultimately, mark the beginning of the end of the Napoleonic empire after his troops were driven from Russia.
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3 sie 2004 · Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the civilized world. But Britain eluded him. To conquer the island nation, he needed Russia's Tsar Alexander's help. The Tsar refused, and Napoleon vowed to teach him a lesson by intimidation and force.
8 lip 2016 · Adam Zamoyski’s 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow has been rightly acclaimed as an epic of narrative history, doing for Napoleon’s invasion of Moscow what Anthony Beevor has done for crucial battles of the second world war – make huge military and geo-political episodes as thrilling, as affecting, and as emotionally alive as they ...
9 sie 2023 · This is a detailed, well-researched and absorbing book about Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, his tragic retreat from Moscow and his ultimate defeat.
The book provides both ample details of facts that support the best modern military analysis of the campaign as well as some tantalizing facts which suggest reasons for events and results overlooked by military historians.
