[PDF] Berezina Book 3 eBook

Author : Frédéric Richaud
Publisher : Cinebook
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2023-03-24T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1800448325

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The terrible Russian winter has engulfed the retreat, and the Grande Armée is no more. Mercilessly harassed by the fierce Cossacks, a few thousand men only continue to trudge forward, weak, starving, emaciated, leaving a trail of frozen dead behind. And as Russian regular forces prepare to surround and trap them, the weather suddenly turns warmer, making rivers impassable. To escape, they will have to somehow cross a river whose name would soon become synonymous with tragedy: the Berezina ...

Author : Frederic Richaud
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2023-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781800440906

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September 1812. Napoleon is master of Europe, and strikes at Russia with 600,000 men. He enters Moscow with no resistance, a conqueror at the height of his glory ... and everything crumbles. The last volume of a trilogy.

Author : Sylvain Tesson
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1787701999

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October 1812, Napoleon enters Moscow. The Russians have set fire to the city, soon it will be reduced to a pile of ash. The Emperor equivocates, decides to turn back. This is the beginning of the retreat from Russia, a page of history that has become legendary for its degree of suffering and horror, but also for the heroic acts that took place. Two hundred years later, Sylvain Tesson, accompanied by four friends (two Russians and two French), decides to follow the route of the retreat. Perched on two Soviet Ural sidecar motorcycles, they will rejoin Paris from Moscow, guided only by the spectres of the two hundred thousand soldiers who died through cold, starvation, and in battle. Twenty five hundred miles travelled in a wild escapade to salute the ghosts of history, across the white plains of Russia.

Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1848849443

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The full story of Napoleon’s legendary escape from Russia under seemingly impossible odds is recounted in this thrillingly vivid military history. In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by three separate Russian armies. By late November, Napoleon had reached the banks of the River Berezina—the last natural obstacle between his army and the safety of the Polish frontier. But instead of finding the river frozen solid enough to march his men across, an unseasonable thaw had turned the Berezina into an icy torrent. Having already ordered the burning of his bridging equipment, Napoleon's predicament was serious enough: but with the army of Admiral Chichagov holding the opposite bank, and those of Kutusov and Wittgenstein closing fast, it was critical. In a gripping narrative that draws on contemporary sources—including letters, diaries and memoirs—Alexander Mikaberidze describes how Napoleon rose from the pit of despair to execute one of the greatest escapes in military history.

Author : François-Guy Hourtoulle
Publisher : Histoire & Collections
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Berezina River, Battle of, Belarus, 1812
ISBN : 9782352500445

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Napoleon had failed to tame the Russian Bear and winter made that dream impossible. The Grande Armee was retreating under constant attack from the Cossacks. The Berezina was the last obstacle that had to be crossed. Discover how this terrible episode was a true victory for French military genius.

Author : Frédéric Richaud
Publisher : Cinebook
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2021-05-20T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1800449623

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Napoleon is furious. It appears the battle can no longer be won. The French cavalry is so exhausted it can’t even gallop when charging. Ammunition is running out, while losses mount horrifically – both in men and in irreplaceable officers ... But the Austrians have paid an equally steep price, and a complete defeat may yet be avoided. Louis- François, Paradis, Fayolle ... Who will survive the terrible bloodbath – the better to serve again in the next one?

Author : Frédéric Richaud
Publisher : Cinebook
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2022-09-22T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1800449038

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Moscow is now in French hands, but a large part of the city has burned down, and it’s been emptied of all food, fodder and warm clothes. Even as winter approaches, and against the advice of his generals, Napoleon insists on staying, convinced that the Czar will soon surrender to him. But both soldiers and civilians increasingly suffer from hunger and the cold, and the terrifying Cossacks constantly harry any troops sent out to forage for food ...

Author : Frederic Richaud
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2022-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781800440715

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September 1812. Napoleon is master of Europe, and strikes at Russia with 600,000 men. He enters Moscow with no resistance, a conqueror at the height of his glory ... and everything crumbles. The second volume of a trilogy.

Author : FRDRIC. RICHAUD
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2022-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781800440623

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September 1812. Napoleon is master of Europe, and strikes at Russia with 600,000 men. He enters Moscow with no resistance, a conqueror at the height of his glory ... and everything crumbles. The first volume of a trilogy.

Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2007-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1848849702

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On 7 September 1812 at Borodino, 75 miles west of Moscow, the armies of the Russian and French empires clashed in one of the climactic battles of the Napoleonic Wars. This horrific - and controversial - contest has fascinated historians ever since. The survival of the Russian army after Borodino was a key factor in Napoleon's eventual defeat and the utter destruction of the French army of 1812. In this thought-provoking new study, Napoleonic historian Alexander Mikaberidze reconsiders the 1812 campaign and retells the terrible story of the Borodino battle as it was seen from the Russian point of view. His original and painstakingly researched investigation of this critical episode in Napoleon's invasion of Russia provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the battle and a broader understanding of the underlying reasons for the eventual Russian triumph. This book as just receive second prize by the Literary Committee of the International Napoleonic Society. A total of twelve distinguished works were carefully evaluated and Dr. Mikaberidze’s volume has met the rigorous criteria established by the Committee. The quality of the publication, especially in the area of research, originality, style and analysis, represents a significant contribution to Napoleonic Studies.