1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign

1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign by K. Riehn, Richard. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780471543022.

The author, an editor of Campaigns Magazine for ten years, has written a groundbreaking new study of Napoleons disasterous Russian campaign of 1812. In doing this, he has employed primary sources never before translated from the German and Russian. He points out the real reasons for Napoleons defeat which had nothing to do with cold weather but rather were a complex combination of faulty logistics, bureaucratic mismanagement and Napoleons own but uncharacteristic indecision and bad choices.