Polish Eyewitnesses to Napoleons 1812 Campaign
Polish Eyewitnesses to Napoleons 1812 Campaign Napoleon's invasion of Russia cost the lives of hundreds of thousands and changed the course of history. Six months later, it was the ghost of an army,…
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Polish Eyewitnesses to Napoleons 1812 Campaign
Napoleon's invasion of Russia cost the lives of hundreds of thousands and changed the course of history. Six months later, it was the ghost of an army, frozen and miserable, that limped back to their horrified homes.While the story of this epic military disaster has often been told, it has never been described before from the viewpoint of the tens of thousands of Polish soldiers who took part, and that is why this selection of their vivid eyewitness testimony is of such value.Most of their accounts - letters, diaries and memoirs - have not been translated into English before, and they come from a variety of authors. Europe had never seen an army quite like the one gathering in Poland in 1812 - half a million men in brilliant uniforms, plumed shakoes and shimmering helmets.
Some of them were patriots who were keen to wage war on the Russians in order to regain
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