Paul Britten Austin: 2 books
by Paul Britten Austin
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
The dramatic story of Napoleon’s escape from Elba and march on Paris—in the words of eyewitnesses and participants.
Drawing on hundreds of firsthand accounts by Napoleon’s supporters and opponents, Paul Britten Austin recreates the drama of those tumultuous days of the spring of 1815...
by Paul Britten Austin
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This account of Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia, in the words of those who experienced it, offers “a brilliant insight into men at war” (David G. Chandler, author of The Campaigns of Napoleon).
Hundreds of thousands of men set out on that midsummer day of 1812. None could have...