Napoleon's campaign in Russia was perhaps the greatest military disaster of all time and a human tragedy of unprecedented proportions - the first historical example of total war. 1812 is the masterful epic of a conqueror's hubris, the madness of war and one of the most dramatic turning points in world history. Adam Zamoyski has analysed a multitude of eyewitness accounts in French, Russian, German, Polish and Italian, often for the first time, and written an outrageously vivid, incisively judgmental and brilliantly written histoire totale, a 'war and peace' of military history. The result is an unforgettable book that tells history as closely as few authors can.
"Rousing ... A brilliant piece of narrative history, full of dazzlingly composed individual descriptions, an all-round fascinating account of probably one of the greatest military disasters of all time ... Zamoyski's account of the 1812 campaign is a model of elegance and clarity." (T.J. Binyan)
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Zamoyski, A.
Title
1812 Napoleons Feldzug in Russland
Details
60 b/w illustrations and 24 maps. 720 pages
State
new
Verlag C. H. Beck oHG Wilhelmstr. 9 80801 München Deutschland
