| Description |
1 online resource (263 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; PREFACE; MAPS; SOME IMPORTANT EYEWITNESSES; Chapter 1 Fire! Fire! -- Chapter 2 Napoleon Leaves the Kremlin; Chapter 3 The Fair of Moscow; Chapter 4 A Disconsolate Advance Guard; Chapter 5 Settling in for the Winter?; Chapter 6 Marauding Parties; Chapter 7 Lovely Autumn Weather; Chapter 8 A Lethal Truce; ILLUSTRATIONS; Chapter 9 Preparations for Departure; Chapter 10 Battle at Winkovo; Chapter 11 Taking French Leave; Chapter 12 Where Our Conquest of the World Ended -- Chapter 13 That's Enough, Gentlemen. I Shall Decide -- NOTES |
| Summary |
At the gates of Moscow, Napoleon's Grand Army prepares to enter in triumphal procession. But what it finds is a city abandoned by its inhabitants - save only the men who emerge to fan the flames as incendiary fuses hidden throughout the empty buildings of Moscow set the city alight. For three days Moscow burned, while looters dodged the fires to plunder and pillage. And so begins 1812: Napoleon in Moscow, Paul Britten Austin's atmospheric second volume in his acclaimed trilogy on Napoleon's catastrophic invasion of Russia. After the fires died down the army settled in the ruins of Moscow; for f |
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English |
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| Subject |
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow
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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Military.
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Military campaigns
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Russia (Federation) -- Moscow
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783832071 |
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178383207X |
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