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Adam Zamoyski. 1812
1812. Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow
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Contents
Select Glossary of Place-Names in the Former Polish Lands of the Russian Empire
Introductory Note
1. Caesar
2. Alexander
3. The Soul of Europe
4. The Drift to War
5. La Grande Armée
6. Confrontation
7. The Rubicon
8. Vilna
9. Courteous War
10. The Heart of Russia
11. Total War
12. Kutuzov
13. The Battle for Moscow
14. Hollow Triumph
15. Stalemate
16. The Distractions of Moscow
17. The March to Nowhere
18. Retreat
19. The Mirage of Smolensk
20. The End of the Army of Moscow
21. The Berezina
22. Empire of Death
23. The End of the Road
24. His Majesty’s Health
25. The Legend
Plates
Notes. Preface
Chapter 1: Caesar
Chapter 2: Alexander
Chapter 3: The Soul of Europe
Chapter 4: The Drift to War
Chapter 5: La Grande Armée
Chapter 6: Confrontation
Chapter 7: The Rubicon
Chapter 8: Vilna
Chapter 9: Courteous War
Chapter 10: The Heart of Russia
Chapter 11: Total War
Chapter 12: Kutuzov
Chapter 13: The Battle for Moscow
Chapter 14: Hollow Triumph
Chapter 15: Stalemate
Chapter 16: The Distractions of Moscow
Chapter 17: The March to Nowhere
Chapter 18: Retreat
Chapter 19: The Mirage of Smolensk
Chapter 20: The End of the Army of Moscow
Chapter 21: The Berezina
Chapter 22: Empire of Death
Chapter 23: The End of the Road
Chapter 24: His Majesty’s Health
Chapter 25: The Legend
Sources. Primary sources
Studies
Index
About the Author
Reviews
Praise
By the Same Author
About the Publisher
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ADAM ZAMOYSKI
Russia’s expansion in the west, 1772–1812
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Ziembin: Ziembin (Polish), present-day Zembin (Belarus)
‘I was full of dreams, and I saw the means by which I could carry out all that I had dreamed,’ he confided two years later. ‘I saw myself founding a religion, marching into Asia, riding an elephant, with a turban on my head and in my hand the new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs. In my undertakings I would have combined the experiences of the two worlds, exploiting for my own profit the theatre of all history, attacking the power of England in India, and, by means of that conquest, renewing contact with the old Europe. The time I spent in Egypt was the most beautiful of my life, for it was the most ideal.’ He felt that the East offered a grander stage on which to act out his destiny. ‘There has been nothing left to achieve in Europe over these last two centuries,’ he declared a couple of years later. ‘It is only in the East that one can work on a grand scale.’ Napoleon would far rather have emulated Alexander the Great than Charlemagne.19
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