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The second of three volumes, this book represents the first English translation of the memoirs that rank among the best in the vast Napoleonic memoir literature. The author, Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskii, served with distinction during the wars against Napoleon and wrote down his reminisces shortly after the war based on the notes that he kept while campaigning. Born in 1788, Radozhitskii studied at the Imperial Orphanage, enlisted in the art...

The fourth installment in this series is the memoirs of Moritz von Kotzebue, the son of the famous August von Kotzebue. After being captured at Polotsk in August 1812, Kotzebue spent the next year and a half in the French captivity as he was moved first to Germany and then to France. His memoir is fascinating for its vivid, and occasionally witty, descriptions of his experiences.

The diary of Pavel Pushin, an officer of the Life Guard Semeyonovskii Regiment, covering the last three years of the Napoleonic Wars. It provides valuable insights into the characters of Russian generals and officers and realities of campaigning, relations within the ranks as well as the outside world.

Yermolov is a legend in Russia. A man who rose from obscurity to command armies and conquer provinces, he was the epitome of a military man of action. To his enemies he was a byword for brutality, but, to his homeland, a hero. His memoirs are as dramatic as his rise to fame and fortune. Disgraced and exiled by Emperor Paul he was brought back into service only to witness Russian defeat at the battle of Austerlitz in 1805. Honoured and advanced...

The first of three volumes, this book represents the first English translation of the memoirs that rank among the best in the vast Napoleonic memoir literature.

Volume 2 of General Levin von Bennigsen's memoirs offer unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians in Poland during the spring and early summer of 1807, culminating in the battle at Friedland that paved the way for Napoleon's supremacy in Europe.

A superbly illustrated narrative of how Napoleon skilfully extracted his Grande Armee from the clutches of the pursuing Russian armies.Much has been written about the Battle of the Berezina and the 1812 Russian campaign in general, during which the cold winter devastated the Grande Armée. Historians often praise Napoleon for his actions at the Berezina and attribute his success to a brilliant strategic mind, laying a trap that deceived the Rus...

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Alexander Mikaberidze's latest book is the first modern English-language biography of Mikhail Golenischev-Kutuzov, the famed Russian Field Marshal and central character of Leo Tolstoy's epic "War and Peace." One of the most important military minds of the period, he is credited with defeating Napoleon and saving Russia, though his fame is not limited to the Napoleonic wars. As much as Kutuzov is venerated in Russia, he remains an overlooked fi...

A Georgian-language translation of Napoleon Bonaparte's memoirs on the siege and capture of Toulon in 1793.

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The fifth installment in the ?Russian Voice of the Napoleonic Wars? series is the memoirs of Louis-Victor-L?on de Rochechouart, the scion of an eminent French noble family who fled his native land during the French Revolution and served in the Russian army during the Napoleonic Wars.

An indispensable reference on concentration camps, death camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and military prisons offering broad historical coverage as well as detailed analysis of the nature of captivity in modern conflict.This comprehensive reference work examines internment, forced labor, and extermination during times of war and genocide, with a focus on the 20th and 21st centuries and particular attention paid to World War II and recent conflic...

Biographies of the senior Russian officers who commanded troops in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars

A Georgian-language chronicle of twenty six Marshals of Empire created by Emperor Napoleon. The book explores their origins, early careers during the French Revolution, elevation under Napoleon's leadership and their changing relationships as the fortunes of the Napoleonic empire rose and fell.

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A reference work that thoroughly documents the extensive military history of the Islamic world between the 7th century and the present day.

The first book to bring together dozens of letters, diaries and memoirs of Russian participants of the 1814 Campaign.

Situated in the breathtaking Caucasus Mountains between the Black and the Caspian Seas, the country of Georgia sits at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, it has gone through more turbulence and change in the last 15 years-the casting off of the Soviet regime, a civil war, two ethno-territorial conflicts, economic collapse, corruption, government inefficiency, and massive emigration-than most countries go through in 150 years. However, des...

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