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Cate, Curtis.

Forma i typ

Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe

Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura amerykańska

Temat

Napoleon I (cesarz Francuzów ; 1769-1821) Aleksander I (cesarz Rosji ; 1777-1825) Wojna francusko-rosyjska (1812) Bitwa pod Borodino (1812)

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Dziedzina i ujęcie

Historia

Indeks na stronach 475-487.

Bibliografia na stronach 461-472.

One of those rare historical works in which the action and intrigue are practically nonstop, switching from the arrogant magnificence of St. Petersburg to the gaudy vulgarity of Napoleonic Paris, from the splendid assemblage of crowned heads at Dresden in May 1812 to the frozen hecatombs of common soldiers at Vilna in December, from boudoirs and ballrooms to the battlefield of Borodino, where in a few hours more men were slaughtered than in any single day of World War I. Never had a departure for war more resembled a journey of pleasure than Napoleon's that spring. He returned at the end of the fall in a solitary carriage, rattling through the empty streets of Paris in the middle of the night. His Grande Armée, 450,000 strong when the Russian campaign began, had practically ceased to exist. What had gone wrong? How, first, did Napoleon misplay his Polish card? Why, once in Russia, did he repeatedly refuse to turn back when it became clear that he was being drawn into a trap of his own making? In a day-by-day account, Curtis Cate depicts a disaster which never should have happened and which, almost until the end, could have been prevented.

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