Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European his

Half a million men crossed the Niemen in Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Russia. The trials and tribulations of the invading force are captured in eye-witness

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