The Death of Joachim Murat
- 256 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
The only English-language book on the fall and death of Joachim Murat.



The only English-language book on the fall and death of Joachim Murat.
'My horse took the force of his sabre, but I was able to hack at his hands... Wounded quite badly, he went down only to try again. I was tired of this game, so I threw myself onto him and staved in his head.' Jonathan North presents an astonishing history of Napoleon's early 'bartering of lives for glory' based on the words of the soldiers.
Napoleon's disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia seen through the eyes of Polish soldiers in his army.