In the summer of 1812 Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armee, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. He was about to undertake the most daring of all his many campaigns: the invasion of Russia. Meeting only sporadic opposition and defeating it easily along the way, the huge army moved forward, advancing ineluctably on Moscow through the long hot days of summer. On September 14, Napoleon entered the Russian capital, fully anticipating the Czar's surrender. Instead he encountered an eerily deserted city—and silence. The French army sacked the city, and by October Defeat - Philippe-Paul de Ségur od authora Philippe-Paul de Ségur a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Philippe-Paul de Ségur |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
300 |
| Typ |
filmy |
| Nakladatelství |
The New York Review of Books |
