With Napoleon's guard in Russia : the memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812 / Louis Joseph Vionnet ; translated and edited by Jonathan North.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vionnet, Louis Joseph, author.

Contributor:

North, Jonathan, translator, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns--Russia--Personal narratives, French.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2012.

Summary:

Major Louis Joseph Vionnet's memoirs of Napoleon's disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His account concentrates in particular on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present at all the major actions and followed the entire course of the campaign from the opening moves in July 1812 to being chased through Prussia by bands of Cossacks in early 1813. He was present at the destruction of Smolensk, toured the battlefield of Borodino and witnessed the great fire in Moscow. Vionnet

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Note on the Text""; ""Introduction - Vionnet and his Regiment""; ""The Memoirs""; ""The Advance to Vilna""; ""The Battle for Smolensk""; ""Borodino""; ""Moscow""; ""The Great Fire""; ""Retreat""; ""Smolensk Again""; ""Destruction at Krasnoe""; ""Crossing the Beresina""; ""Vilna""; ""Kovno""; ""The Aftermath""; ""In Berlin""; ""In Paris""; ""My New Appointment""; ""Wounded""; ""Annex I - Accounts of the Burning of Moscow by Personnel in the Fusiliers-Grenadiers""

""Annex II - Accounts of the Battle of Krasnoe by Personnel in the Fusiliers-Grenadiers""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781783401703

1783401702

9781783408986

1783408987

OCLC:

854974850