464 pages, b/w photos. Green boards, very minor rubbing to edges. Illustrated, unclipped jacket,very minor edge-wear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. ".tells the story of the end of the most famously disastrous campaign in history, using the words of the survivors to describe their desperate withdrawal from Russia. Napoleon's campaign had begun with more than a third of a million men setting out on what was to be a long and terrible march to the glittering city of Moscow. Only 100,000 were to reach it. Forced to turn back in the face of winter's onset, almost nothing of the drastically reduced army lived to recross the Niemen River."

Borodino,  Viazma,  Doroghoboui,  Smolensk,  Berezina,  Krasnoie,  Borissow  Bridge,  Partonneaux