Napoleon's Lost Army: The Soldiers Who Fell

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• 1. The discovery of a grave
• 2. Napoleon's strategy
• 3. Russian withdrawal
• 4. Disaster
• 5. Harrowing defeat
• 6. Aftermath
• 7. Tales from the grave
• 8. Find out more
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Books

1812: The Great Retreat by Paul Britten-Austin (Greenhill Books, 1996)

1812: Napoleon's Invasion of Russia by Paul Britten-Austin (Greenhill Books, 2000)

With Napoleon in Russia: The Illustrated Memoirs of Faber Du Faur, 1812 by Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur; ed. Jonathan North (Greenhill Books, 2001)

1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia ed. Anthony Brett-James (Macmillan, 1966)

Napoleon's Invasion of Russia by George F Nafziger (Presidio Press, 1998)

In the Legions of Napoleon: Memoirs of a Polish Officer by Heinrich von Brandt ed. Jonathan North (Greenhill Books, 1999)

In the Service of the Tsar against Napoleon by Denis Davidov, translated by Gregory Troubetzkoy (Greehill Books, 1999)

About the author

Paul Britten-Austin, who lives in Sweden, took 20 years to research and write his trilogy 1812: The March on Moscow, Napoleon in Moscow, The Great Retreat. An elaborate collage of eyewitness accounts, it has been reissued in one paperback volume as 1812: Napoleon's Invasion of Russia As Told by his Men (Greenhill Books, and Stackpole Books, USA).

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