Article: 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow.(Book Review)

1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow. Adam Zamoyski. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]25.00. 644 pages. ISBN 0-00-7122375-2. Napoleon's Russian campaign cost about one million lives according to the scholarly researches of the author. There are some justly popular memoirs on the French side ranging from Segur and Cauliancourt at the top to the sufferings of Seargeant Bourgogne at the bottom. What we have long needed is an up-to-date general account of this great military disaster brought about by the boundless ambition of one man. Adam Zamoyski has now supplied that need with a colourful but ...

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