Paperback Edition
5.5 x 8.5 inches, 704 pages, 16 maps.
This impressive volume gives a complete picture of the two armies involved in this titanic struggle, which broke the back of Napoleon's empire and shook Europe to its very core. Napoleon's Grande Armée went into Russia 600,000 strong and was whittled down in the arduous advance, the taking of Smolensk, the holocaust at Borodino and in the unimaginable horrors of the retreat from Moscow, to just a few thousand survivors. These events, and the shifting organization and troop strengths of Napoleon's army, are fully covered, but so too are the armies of the Tsar and their superb defense and disciplined withdrawal into the depths of Russia.
With some of the most thoroughly researched orders of battle available to date, detailed maps and charts, and contemporary decrees and records of troop movements, this is a superb history of a vicious struggle, charting events from the crossing of the Niemen, to Borodino and the Beresina.
George F. Nafziger is an acknowledged expert in the Napoleonic Wars and the author of a number of key works, including Imperial Bayonets and Napoleon at Dresden. David Chandler is a foremost authority on Napoleon and the author of The Campaigns of Napoleon and Napoleon's Marshals.
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