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Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace |  | Author: Dominic Lieven
Publisher: Viking Adult
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 656
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 2.3
ISBN: 0670021571
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.270947
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Publication Date: April 15, 2010
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A major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in War and Peace
Russia's expulsion of Napoleon's Grande Armée in 1812 is considered one of the most dramatic events in European history. However, Tolstoyan myth and an imbalance of British and French interpretations have clouded most Westerners' understanding of Russia's role in the defeat of Napoleon.
Based on a fresh examination of Russian military archives, Russia Against Napoleon provides the first-ever history of the period told from the Russian perspective. In Dominic Lieven's account, Russia's victory in 1812 was just the beginning of what would be the longest military campaign in European history, marked by Russia's epic efforts to feed and supply half a million troops as they crossed an entire continent.
Moving from the 1807 treaty signed by Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I through the Russian army's improbable entry into Paris in 1814, Lieven provides suspenseful accounts of events, such as the burning of Moscow and the great battles of Leipzig and Borodino, as well as astute analyses of the great military strategists of the time. The result is a magisterial work sure to be eagerly anticipated by military and history buffs alike.
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 This Is The Book We Have Been Waiting For July 12, 2010
Michael E. Murray MD
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Dominic Lieven had three ancestors who were general officers on the field of the pivotal Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in the autumn of 1813. How fortunate for us, because this apparently was a major stimulus for Lieven to perform a massive translation of Russian archives and bring us the first book to fully cover the 1812-14 period of the Napoleonic Wars from the Russian point of view. In addition to military personalities and battle movements there is ample material here on logistics, weather conditions, and the effects of long marches on the Russian soldiers. Prior histories in English have stressed the British, French and German viewpoints but neglected the Russian. Anyone interested in the Napoleonic period will gain a great deal of new information and a better overall balance from reading Lieven's excellent book.
GREAT HISTORY WELL TOLD June 29, 2010
D. Kane (Warm Beach, WA USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an outstanding book. The War of 1812, 1813 and 1814, written from the perspective of Russian history. German, and especially French viewpoints have dominated standard history books. We've probably all seen the painting of Napolean on his horse, shivering in Moscow. Then what happened? This book explains how and why by 1814 victorious Russian troops marched through the streets of Paris.
This a long read, but well worth the time.
 A message to the author June 27, 2010
Marcelo Ale
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
There is little to add to the previous comments. This is an excellent book whose "revisionism" effortlessly emerges from its broader picture. I agree that sometimes the author seems to infer "avant la lettre" nationalist states of mind unlikely to have occurred. The reader is therefore unable to judge whether the outcomes were actually due to calculation or their impeccable logic is rather an artifact of the interpretation.
I only give 4 stars because the book in its present format is slightly indigestible. Except for a handful of maps before the introduction, no further illustration accompanies the detailed description of the many battles or movements of troops. "Right" and "left" flanks abound without a clear idea of where the arrows are pointing to. Small town names cannot make much sense unless one was born in the region, and the regions covered by these campaigns extend from Moscow to Paris.
We can understand the technological limitations met by Thucydides or Von Clausewitz, but in the era of computers and smartphones a pure text war treaty is unacceptable. I hope the author will heed this advice for a future edition.
 Warning: No Maps in Kindle Edition June 27, 2010
Andy Vickery
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Good history, providing a different perspective to the "Napoleon defeated by General Winter" view of his Russian campaigns.
Overall, this is a very readable account, explained clearly, but ruined in the Kindle Edition by complete lack of maps. Honestly, how can anyone make sense of military history without maps?
Engrossing, Vibrant Account June 25, 2010
Henry James (Cambridge, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book combines many delicious qualities. Most apparent from the beginning is its felicitous narrative style. It is engrossing and brings the reader right into the setting described.
It is also a most illuminating description of the national interests of the European countries of the age, and gives one a preview of the alliances that led to WWI
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