* Following on from The Battle, this is the second book in Rambaud's Napoleonic trilogy - In this second novel of the trilogy, Rambaud breathes new life into the story of Napoleon's 1812 Moscow Campaign, and his subsequent retreat to Beresina. The story is told through the eyes of some of those involved, from the Emperor himself to a young servant boy. As with The Battle, the historical detail is impeccable. The reader is immersed in a vivid and bustling military world, one thwarted by crippling famine and illness. At the ...
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* Following on from The Battle, this is the second book in Rambaud's Napoleonic trilogy - In this second novel of the trilogy, Rambaud breathes new life into the story of Napoleon's 1812 Moscow Campaign, and his subsequent retreat to Beresina. The story is told through the eyes of some of those involved, from the Emperor himself to a young servant boy. As with The Battle, the historical detail is impeccable. The reader is immersed in a vivid and bustling military world, one thwarted by crippling famine and illness. At the same time Rambaud weaves his delicate and remarkable pyschological profiles, opening imaginative doors into the psyches of those involved, from the great leader himself, to the common soldier shivering under fire in the freezing Russian winter.
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