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Product: The Battle for Moscow by David Stahel (2015-03-16)
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Product: Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne: 1812-1813
Description: In June 1812, Napoleon’s 680,000 strong Grande Armée crossed the Neman River and invaded Russia.

When the remnants of Napoleon's army returned over the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 effective soldiers remained.

Adrien Bourgogne’s Memoirs is one of the most vivid and moving accounts of this dramatic turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.

Bourgogne had been in the Napoleonic Army since the campaign of 1806 in Poland. He had taken part in the Battle of Essling, and had fought in Germany, Austria, Spain and Portugal. But none of this could prepare him for the campaign of 1812.

The memoir begins with the long travel from Portugal to Moscow where the French were able to defeat the Russian armies in small battles and take the city. But this victory soon became a nightmare as supplies ran short and winter descended onto the Grande Armée.

Without being able strike a decisive blow against the Russians, Napoleon was forced to retreat across the barren, snow-covered lands of western Russia.

Bourgogne’s account of this agonising journey back towards France truly captures the horrific experience of the troops.

As their rearguard was constantly harassed by Cossacks, the French stumbled across the landscape. Some died from hunger, others from merely sleeping on the ground and freezing to death.

Bourgogne’s Memoir is an extremely personal account of this time, as he details how he and his comrades did absolutely anything to survive. These proud troops of France who had defeated every army they faced were reduced to killing their horses, stealing, pillaging and begging. But throughout they never lost faith in their leader, Napoleon.

The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne are essential reading for anyone interested in the Napoleonic Wars and Napoleon’s failed invasion of Russia.

These memoirs were written during his months of captivity. After his life in the army he worked as a draper before re-enlisting in the army in 1830 and receiving the Legion of Honor in 1831. In 1853, Adrien Bourgogne retired and completed his memoirs entitled Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, appearing in the New Retrospective Review. He died in 1867. This edition was compiled and translated by Paul Cottin in 1899. Cottin died in 1932.
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Product: By David Stahel - The Battle for Moscow (2015-03-31) [Hardcover]
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Product: Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East by David Stahel (January 09,2012)
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Product: The Battle for Moscow
Description: In November 1941 Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometres away. Army Group Centre was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective the final drive on Moscow had all the ingredients of a dramatic final battle in the east, which, according to previous accounts, only failed at the gates of Moscow. David Stahel challenges this well-established narrative by demonstrating that the last German offensive of 1941 was a forlorn effort, undermined by operational weakness and poor logistics and driven forward by what he identifies as National Socialist military thinking. With unparalleled research from previously undocumented army files and soldiers' letters, Stahel takes a fresh look at the battle for Moscow, which even before the Soviet winter offensive, threatened disaster for Germany's war in the east.
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Product: The Retreat from Moscow: A Play About a Family
Description: How well do we know the people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it’s time to be honest? Is love enough to save a family? In The Retreat from Moscow, William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands, tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage, and of the wife and son whose lives will never be the same again.
Edward and Alice have been married for thirty-three years. He is a teacher at a boys school, perfectly at home with his daily crossword and lately engrossed in reading about Napoleon’s costly invasion of Moscow. She is an observant Catholic, exacting and opinionated, and has been collecting poems about lost love for a new anthology. Jamie, their diffident thirty-two year old son, is visiting for the weekend when Edward announces he has met another woman. With the coiled intensity of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and the embracing empathy of Edward Albee’s best family dramas, The Retreat from Moscow shines a breathtakingly natural light on the fallout of a shattered marriage.
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Product: Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization (Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe)
Brand: University of Rochester Press
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Product: Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe
Description: Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular on the Holocaust, the persecution of the Sinti and Roma, the eradication of "useless eaters" (psychiatric patients and Soviet prisoners of war), and the crimes of the Wehrmacht. The collection concludes with a consideration of memorialization and a comparison of Soviet and Nazi mass crimes. While it has been over 70 years since the fall of the Nazi regime, the full extent of the ways violence was used against prisoners of war and civilians is only now coming to be fully understood. Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe provides new insight into the scale of the violence suffered and brings fresh urgency to the need for a deeper understanding of this horrific moment in history.
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Product: Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Product: Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Product: Soldiers of Barbarossa: Combat, Genocide, and Everyday Experiences on the Eastern Front, June–December 1941
Brand: Stackpole Books
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Product: The First Day on the Eastern Front: Germany Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941
Brand: Stackpole Books
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Product: Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East (Cambridge Military Histories)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
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Product: Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942
Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Product: Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
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Product: Joining Hitler's Crusade: European Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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