Napoleon: A Biography

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militaire des campagnes de 1812 a 1814 (Paris 1886); A. Chuquet, Lettres de
1812 (Paris 1911).
There is a wealth of secondary literature: L.J. Margueron, Campagne
de Russie: Preliminaires, 1810 -1812 (Paris 1906); Gabriel Fabry, Cam­
pagne de Russie: Operations, 5 vols (Paris 1903); Cate Curtis, The War of
the Two Emperors: the Duel between Napoleon and Alexander; Russia 1812
(N.Y. 1985); George Nafziger, Napoleon's Invasion of Russia (1988); Nigel
Nicolson, Napoleon. 1812 (1985); R. Riehn, 18 12: Napoleon's Russian
Campaign (N.Y. 1991); Christopher Duffy , Borodino and the War of 1812
(1973); E. Tarle, Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812 (1942); Alan Palmer,
Napoleon in Russia (N.Y. 1967); Arthur Chuquet, 18 12: La guerre en
Russie (Paris 1912 ); Jean Thiry, La Campagne de Russie (Paris 1969); Paul
Britten Austin, Napoleon in Moscow (1995) and Napoleon. The Great
Retreat (1996).
Many monographs have been written on particular incidents in this
famous campaign: B. de Faye, Smolensk (Paris 1912); Van Vlijmen, Vers le
Beresina (Paris 1908); R. Soltyk, Napoleon en 1812 - medical aspects -
(Paris 1936); T. Fleischmann, Napoleon au Bivouac (Brussels 1957). For
the Moscow period Abbe Surrugues, Lettres sur Ia prise de Moscou en 1812
(Paris 1820) is valuable, as is F. Pisani, Con Napoleone nella Campagna di
Russia, Memorie inedite di un ufficiale della Grande Armata (Milan 1942).
See also D. Olivier, L 'Incendie de Moscou (Paris 1964).
Particular personalities are dealt with in the following: M.A. Fabre,
Jerome Bonaparte, roi de Westphalie (Paris 1952); Abel Mansuy, Jerome
Bonaparte et Ia Pologne en 1812 (Paris 193 1); Michael and Diana
Josselson, The Commander: Barclay de Tolly (N.Y. 198o); Serge Nabokov,
Koutouzov, le vainqueur de Napoleon (Paris 1990); F.D. Scott, Bernadotte
and the Fall of Napoleon (Cambridge, Mass. 1935 ); E. Dard, Narbonne
(Paris 1943); M. Jenkins, Arakcheev: Grand Vizier of the Russian Empire
(1969); M. Josselson, The Commander: a Life of Barclay de Tolly (Oxford
198o); Sophie de Segur, Rostopchine (Paris 1873); Roger Parkinson, The
Fox of the North. The Life of Kutusov (1976).
The considerable role of non-French troops in the French army
emerges in Jean Sauzey, Les Allemands sous les aigles franfaises (Paris
1912 ); Paul Boppe, Les Espagnols a Ia Grande Armee (Paris 1899); M.
Holden, Napoleon in Russia (1974); Le Gall-Torrance, 'Memoires russes
sur l'epoque napoleonienne', Revue de l'Institut Napoleon (1979); R.
Bilecki, 'L'effort militaire polonais, 1806-1815', Revue de l'Institut
Napoleon (1976). Poland is particularly important in this story, especially
during the retreat and is the subject of J. Mansuy, Jerome Napoleon et Ia
Pologne en 1812 (Paris 1931) and B. Dundulis, Napoleon et Ia Lithuanie en

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