Borodino Battle: An Illustrated Encyclopedia for Young Readers

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BOOK LIKE THIS ABOUT THE BORODINO BATTLE!

The Borodino battle on August 26 (September 7) 1812 is the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars and one of the main pages in Russian military history. “The battle... near Moscow became the most glorious, the hardest, and the most honorable. The Russians proved to be brave soldiers…” Napoleon Bonaparte himself admitted in exile on the island of Saint Helena.
This book is not a retelling of well-known facts, but an exciting HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION and a true RECONSTRUCTION of the decisive battle of the Patriotic War of 1812. Restoring a minute-by-minute chronicle of the hostilities, analyzing a colossal array of documents and testimonies from participants in the battle from both the Russian and French sides, the author—a renowned historian and recognized expert on the Napoleonic era—unfolds before the reader a panorama of the Borodino battle, depicting it for the first time in its true scale and grandeur.
The edition is richly illustrated with color reproductions and battle maps.