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1 paź 2009 · Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of...
Using an array of new, rare and surprising sources, Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the...
In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins, and Russia had triumphed.
In the era covered by this book Russia ran on the Julian calendar, which in the nineteenth century was twelve days behind the Gregorian calendar used in most of the rest of Europe.
3 gru 2010 · Russia against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace. , by Lieven, Dominic. New York & London: Viking Penguin, 2009. xvii+618 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978–0–670–02157–4.
5 sie 2014 · USGS Maps; Top. NASA Images; Solar System Collection; Ames Research Center; ... Russia against Napoleon Bookreader Item Preview ... Russia against Napoleon by D. C. B. Lieven. Publication date 2010 Publisher Viking Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive
Lieven weaves these threads together with flair and offers insight into the specifics of everything from infantry tactics to diplomatic negotiations. He concludes that Russian and European security were mutually dependent, and that Russia's war was seen by Europeans a one of liberation from Napoleon's exactions and ambitions.
