At Napoleons Side In Russia

Author : Alan Warwick Palmer
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786712632
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon in Russia written by Alan Warwick Palmer and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem,” said Field-Marshal Prince Mikhail Kutuzov in September 1812, and then he predicted, “Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry.” Three months earlier, on June 24, 1812, Napoleon had made his fateful crossing of the Niemen River into Lithuania with an army of 500,000 men, which by December would be depleted by war, the weather, starvation, and disease to a mere 10,000. Sucked dry, indeed. The final six months of 1812 made of Napoleon’s boldest imperial dream his most disastrous military campaign, which historian and biographer Alan Palmer recounts here with narrative immediacy, colorful detail, analytic skill, and striking insight. He follows the French forces in their long, dusty haul from Vilna to Vitebsk to Viasma; from the frightful slaughter at Borodino to Moscow’s deserted, burning streets—and then the horrors of the grueling winter retreat. But Palmer also looks beyond the savagery of blizzards and battles to bring to his vast canvas an overall picture of a campaign that tragically cost Napoleon nearly half a million men and shaped the greatest catastrophe of his career. Illustrations and maps are included.

Author : Michael Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826442129
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon and Russia written by Michael Adams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon and Russia tells, for the first time, the full story of Napoleon and his crucial relationship with Russia, from the 1790s and Bonaparte's rise to power, through the period of Austerlitz, Tilsit and the Russian invasion, to the Emperor's fall and its aftermath. In doing so, it not only puts the critical events of 1812 in their proper context as part of an even greater tale - of peace as well as war, friendship as well as enmity - but also provides fresh insight into the Napoleonic period as a whole, questioning many of the assumptions about the era prevalent in the English-speaking world. The tale boasts a cast of fascinating characters to rival any novel: the rulers, Napoleon himself, Catherine the Great, 'Mad' Tsar Paul and the enigmatic Alexander I; generals such as Ney, Murat, Davout, Suvorov, Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly; statesmen like Talleyrand, Caulaincourt, Czartoryski and Rumiantsev; and, of course, the ordinary soldiers who fought some of the most intriguing, bloody and important campaigns in history. This is an enthralling story of fundamental importance in the history of Europe and, indeed, the world.

Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141947446
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia Against Napoleon written by Dominic Lieven and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 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. This is the first history to explore in depth Russia's crucial role in the Napoleonic Wars, re-creating the epic battle between two empires as never before. 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 Europe; the consequences of which could not have been more important. Ultimately this book shows, memorably and brilliantly, Russia embarking on its strange, central role in Europe's existence, as both threat and protector - a role that continues, in all its complexity, into our own lifetimes.

Author : Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "1812" written by Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1899 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following pages are not offered to the reader as a history of the invasion of Russia by Napoleon. They are but the statement of the basis of observation on which M. Verestchagin has founded his great series of pictures illustrative of the campaign. These pictures are now to be exhibited in this country, and the painter has naturally desired to show us from what point of view he has approached the study of his subject-one of the greatest subjects in the whole range of history-especially for a Russian artist. The point of view is-inevitably in his case-that of the Realist; and this consideration gives unity to the conception of his whole career and endeavour. He has ever painted war as it is, and therefore in its horrors, as one of its effects, though not necessarily as an effect sought in and for itself. He has tried to be "true" in all his representations of the battle-field. His work may thus be said to constitute a powerful plea in support of the Tsar's Rescript to the Nations in favour of peace. My meaning will be best illustrated by a short sketch of M. Verestchagin and his work, as painter, as soldier, and as traveller.

Author : Antony Brett-James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1812 written by Antony Brett-James and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Thomas Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108054005
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of Events During the Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte written by Robert Thomas Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1860, this vivid first-hand account provides important insight into Napoleon's ignominious retreat from Russia.

Author : Paul Britten Austin
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1473811392
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1812: Napoleon in Moscow written by Paul Britten Austin and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia, in the words of those who experienced it, offers “a brilliant insight into men at war” (David G. Chandler, author of The Campaigns of Napoleon). Hundreds of thousands of men set out on that midsummer day of 1812. None could have imagined the terrors and hardships to come. They’d been lured all the way to Moscow without having achieved the decisive battle Napoleon sought—and by the time they reached the city, their numbers had already dwindled by more than a third. One of the greatest disasters in military history was in the making. The fruit of more than twenty years of research, this superbly crafted work skillfully blends the memoirs and diaries of more than a hundred eyewitnesses, all of whom took part in the Grand Army’s doomed march on Moscow, to reveal the inside story of this landmark military campaign. The result is a uniquely authentic account in which the reader sees and experiences the campaign through the eyes of participants in enthralling day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour detail.

Author : Vassili Verestchagin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732623564
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1812 written by Vassili Verestchagin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Philippe-Paul comte de Ségur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.BS/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Expedition to Russia, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 written by Philippe-Paul comte de Ségur and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reginald George Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon's Invasion of Russia written by Reginald George Burton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: