With Napoleon In Russia

About this book

This handsome book is a unique record of Napoleons invasion of Russia by Faber du Faur a talented artist and front-line soldier. It combines his detailed accurate and compelling illustrations of scenes recorded as they actually happened with his vivid and gripping memoirs of the campaign. The result is a superb and remarkably detailed evocation of 1812 from the sweeping battle scenes which capture the ordeal of Smolensk and Borodino to the day-to-day struggle to keep campfires burning and famished men fed. Faber du Faurs plates - admired and highly-regarded primary source material - are here presented for the first time complete and in full color. His moving and frank memoirs edited and translated by Jonathan North are accompanied by a detailed campaign history and biography of the artist. Napoleons invasion of Russia is a legendary campaign and a captivating story of endurance survival and the rigors of total war. Few of the 500 000 men to cross the Niemen in July 1812 were to survive - the French army was decimated by the advance into the heart of Russia and almost completely destroyed in the epic retreat from Moscow. With Napoleon in Russia is a unique presentation of this epic and an unforgettable depiction of the horrors of war.