With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General De Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza [Illustrated Edition]

By: George Libaire and Jean Hanoteau and General Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt

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Synopsis: Includes over 180 illustrations, portraits and maps covering the Russian Campaign of 1812."These Memoirs are the findings of a professional soldier, sitting in judgment upon the foremost soldier of fortune the world has known. But they are something more than that. They are the observations of a man of the Old Régime, whose lot had been cast in with the new Empire. The soldier who wrote them was a statesman as well--a diplomatist of the school of Talleyrand, but without any of that strange creature's womanish ways. He was also--and one often feels the lack of this quality in memorialists who were near Napoleon--an administrator of sufficient skill to comprehend the Emperor's plans, and to do justice to the recording of them. And finally, he was a man with physical energy enough to match, and on occasion to outdo, the Emperor's own."

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