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Napoleon's Invasion of Russia: The Special Campaign Series

Napoleon's Invasion of Russia: The Special Campaign Series

Burton, R. G.

Paperback

Military StrategyNapoleonic Wars

ISBN10: 1783315261
ISBN13: 9781783315260
Publisher: Naval & Military Pr
Published: Oct 8 2019
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.55 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English

Part of the acclaimed Special Campaign series of works intended for serious professional students of military history each volume is interspersed with strategical and tactical comments and illustrated by numerous sketches.

The military lessons of the Russian campaign are numerous. In its general features, in the grandeur of its conception, and in some respects in its execution, as well as in its abysmal end, this gigantic invasion was splendid and awe-inspiring. Who can contemplate unmoved the sublime spectacle of that mighty human stream pouring across Europe into Russia, fighting its way to Moscow, and its shattered remnants struggling back across the Berezina, in worst icy flood so many thousand lives were quenched in circumstances of tragic horror. The dramatic figure of the Great Emperor, standing in the snow during the retreat, domination the situation by the mere terror of his personality, will stand out for ever on the page of history. The fortitude in the retreat of Ney, what warrior of transcendent courage, who, asked were the rearguard, replied in all truth I am the rearguard; and in response to a summons to surrender A Marshal of France never surrenders! furnishes one of the finest episodes of this dramatic epoch.

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