by Digby George Smith · Tapa dura · ISBN 9781844150892
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«Napoleon Against Russia» is a military history essay by Digby Smith, published by Pen & Sword Military in hardback (230 pages, in English).
In June 1812, some 500,000 Napoleonic soldiers invaded Russia; six months later only 20,000 returned. Digby Smith reconstructs the campaign using diaries and letters from survivors, many unpublished in English, and describes how Napoleon's errors caused thousands of casualties and destroyed his military prestige.
The work is subtitled «A Concise History of 1812»; published in 2004, it includes bibliographic references (pp. 234-235) and an index.
Aimed at enthusiasts of military history and the Napoleonic period, with an interest in first-hand accounts from soldiers.
