Napoleon in Russia: A Multi-Faceted Historical View
Strategy, Memoir, Art, and Eyewitness Testimony from the 1812 Russian CampaignBy Carl Von Clausewitz, Edward Foord, Vasily Vereshchagin, Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur, Adrien Bourgogne
Length64h 18m
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Napoleon in Russia: A Multi-Faceted Historical View examines the catastrophic 1812 campaign through military analysis, eyewitness recollection, historical narrative, and visual testimony. Its selections range from strategic assessments of command and logistics to intimate accounts of marching, deprivation, retreat, and survival, thereby resisting any simple heroic or nationalized account of the Grande Armée's fate. Particularly compelling are the contrasts between high-command interpretation and the ground-level experience of soldiers confronting Russia's vast distances, climate, and scorched landscape. The contributors bring together markedly different relationships to the Napoleonic Wars: a major theorist of war, a later military historian, a painter attentive to the human aftermath of conflict, and French participants whose memoirs preserve the immediacy of campaign life. Their perspectives align the volume with the rich nineteenth-century tradition of Napoleonic memoir, military historiography, and anti-war representation. Read together, these voices illuminate how strategy, memory, national identity, and personal suffering shape the historical record. This volume is recommended for students of European history, military studies, and literary testimony, as well as general readers interested in Napoleon's Russian campaign. By placing divergent forms of evidence in dialogue, it offers an unusually broad education in how wars are planned, endured, remembered, and represented.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length64 hrs 18 mins
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Publish dateDec 4, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The History of the Russian Campaign (Annotated)
2The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 1)
3The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 2)
4The Campaign of 1812 (Carl Von Clausewitz) (pt. 3)
5"1812" Napoleon I in Russia (Vasily Vereshchagin) (pt. 1)
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6"1812" Napoleon I in Russia (Vasily Vereshchagin) (pt. 2)
7"1812" Napoleon I in Russia (Vasily Vereshchagin) (pt. 3)
8"1812" Napoleon I in Russia (Vasily Vereshchagin) (pt. 4)
9Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 (Edward Foord) (pt. 1)
10Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 (Edward Foord) (pt. 2)
11Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 (Edward Foord) (pt. 3)
12Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 (Edward Foord) (pt. 4)
13Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 (Edward Foord) (pt. 5)
14Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 (Edward Foord) (pt. 6)
15History of the Expedition to Russia (Comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur)
16HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
17BOOK I.
18BOOK II.
19BOOK III.
20BOOK IV.
21BOOK V.
22BOOK VI.
23BOOK VII.
24HISTORY OF NAPOLEON'S EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA.
25BOOK VIII. (pt. 1)
26BOOK VIII. (pt. 2)
27BOOK IX.
28BOOK X.
29BOOK XI.
30BOOK XII.
31Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812-1813 (Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-François Bourgogne) (pt. 1)
32Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812-1813 (Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-François Bourgogne) (pt. 2)
33Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812-1813 (Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-François Bourgogne) (pt. 3)
34Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812-1813 (Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-François Bourgogne) (pt. 4)
35Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812-1813 (Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-François Bourgogne) (pt. 5)
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