1812: Napoleon's campaign in Russia

Image of the Battle of Smolensk on August 17, 1812 , one of the described battles of the campaign. The picture was painted by Jean-Charles Langlois in 1938. The Zamoyskis book only uses pictures made by eyewitnesses.

1812: Napoleon's campaign in Russia (in the original: Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March ) is a historical work by Adam Zamoyski . It was first published by HarperCollins on August 3, 2004 and deals with the emergence and implementation of Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812 and the subsequent retreat and political fall of Napoleon.

criticism

The book received mostly positive reviews. Günter Müchler from Deutschlandradio, for example, described the book as a “ masterpiece of historiography ”. Ulli Wendelmann from NDR speaks of a “ gripping bestseller ” and for Volker Ullrich from the Tages-Anzeiger it is a “ grandiose epic ” and one of the “ rare historical books that one reads from the first to the last page with bated breath ".

Sales success

By early May 2014, more than 80,000 copies of the book had been sold in Germany.

output

• Adam Zamoyski: 1812 . Napoleon's campaign in Russia. Verlag CH Beck , 2012, ISBN 3-406-63170-3 (English: Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March . Translated by Ruth Keen).

Web links

• Review notes for 1812: Napoleon's campaign in Russia at perlentaucher.de
• Günter Müchler: Contradictory campaign. In: Deutschlandradio . February 20, 2012, Retrieved February 5, 2013 (review). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March . Google Books , (Retrieved January 16, 2008).
2. ↑ See web links
3. ^ Ulli Wendelmann: Napoleon's battle of 1812. In: NDR. September 5, 2012, archived from the original on February 9, 2016 ; Retrieved February 5, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Volker Ullrich: In the Russian Inferno. In: Tages-Anzeiger. August 8, 2012, accessed February 5, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Alexander Cammann: Fat and expensive. In: The time . Retrieved May 5, 2014 .