Napoleon's Russian Odyssey: Historical Novels
Fiction, Strategy, and Survival in the 1812 Invasion of RussiaBy Frederick Whishaw, Max Pemberton, Henry Seton Merriman, G. A. Henty, Leo Tolstoy, Carl Von Clausewitz
Length105h 22m
About this audiobook
Napoleon's Russian Odyssey: Historical Novels gathers imaginative and analytical engagements with the catastrophic 1812 campaign, tracing its movement from imperial ambition to retreat, ruin, and historical afterlife. Across adventure narrative, military chronicle, psychological realism, romance, and strategic reflection, the volume presents war as both spectacle and moral crisis. Scenes of marching armies, contested landscapes, civilian endurance, and winter devastation acquire particular force, while the juxtaposition of fiction with military thought broadens the collection beyond conventional historical romance. Its contributors represent distinct national traditions and literary temperaments: British popular historical writers bring momentum, suspense, and an interest in character tested by conflict; a major Russian realist perspective locates invasion within the textures of family, society, and national memory; and a Prussian military theorist supplies an indispensable framework for considering command, contingency, and the limits of calculation. Together, these voices illuminate the Napoleonic era as a formative subject for nineteenth-century historical consciousness, where individual experience continually unsettles official accounts of glory and defeat. This volume will reward readers of historical fiction, Napoleonic studies, and war literature alike. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare styles, national memories, and interpretations of power within a single book. Readers will find both vivid storytelling and searching reflection, as the works enter into a compelling dialogue about strategy, suffering, heroism, and history itself.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length105 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 4, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Northern Lights
2Napoleon's Russian Odyssey: Historical Novels
3Moscow: A Story of the French Invasion of 1812 (Frederick Whishaw)
4CHAPTER I
5CHAPTER II
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6CHAPTER III
7CHAPTER IV
8CHAPTER V
9CHAPTER VI
10CHAPTER VII
11CHAPTER VIII
12CHAPTER IX
13CHAPTER X
14CHAPTER XI
15CHAPTER XII
16CHAPTER XIII
17CHAPTER XIV
18CHAPTER XV
19CHAPTER XVI
20CHAPTER XVII
21CHAPTER XVIII
22CHAPTER XIX
23CHAPTER XX
24CHAPTER XXI
25CHAPTER XXII
26CHAPTER XXIII
27CHAPTER XXIV
28CHAPTER XXV
29CHAPTER XXVI
30CHAPTER XXVII
31CHAPTER XXVIII
32CHAPTER XXIX
33CHAPTER XXX
34CHAPTER XXXI
35The Great White Army (Max Pemberton)
36CHAPTER I THE WOMAN ON THE STAIRS
37CHAPTER II THE GUILLOTINE
38CHAPTER III THE TREASURE IN THE WOODS
39CHAPTER IV PHANTOM MUSIC
40CHAPTER V THE CAMP BY THE RIVER
41CHAPTER VI THE WITCH IN ERMINE
42CHAPTER VII LITTLE PETROVKA
43CHAPTER VIII THE AFFAIR AT THE POST-HOUSE
44CHAPTER IX WE CROSS THE BÉRÉZINA
45CHAPTER X THE LAST REVIEW
46Barlasch of the Guard (Henry Seton Merriman)
47CHAPTER I. ALL ON A SUMMER'S DAY.
48CHAPTER II. A CAMPAIGNER.
49CHAPTER III. FATE.
50CHAPTER IV. THE CLOUDED MOON.
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