Borodino Field 1812 and 1941 (eBook)

How Napoleon and Hitler Met Their Matches Outside Moscow

Robert Kershaw (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
336 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9759-1 (ISBN)

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The Battle of Borodino resonates with the patriotic soul of Mother Russia. The epic confrontation in September 1812 was the single bloodiest day of the Napoleonic Wars, leaving France's Grande Armée limping to the gates of Moscow and on to catastrophe in snow and ice. Generations later, in October 1941, an equally bitter battle was fought at Borodino. This time Hitler's SS and Panzers came up against elite Siberian troops defending Stalin's Moscow. Remarkably, both conflicts took place in the same woods and gullies that follow the sinuous line of the Koloch River. Borodino Field relates the gruelling experience of the French army in Russia, juxtaposed with the personal accounts, diaries and letters of SS and Panzer soldiers during the Second World War. Acclaimed historian Robert Kershaw draws on previously untapped archives to narrate the odyssey of soldiers who marched along identical tracks and roads on the 1,000-kilometre route to Moscow, and reveals the astonishing parallels and contrasts between two battles fought on Russian terrain over 100 years apart.

ROBERT KERSHAW is a graduate of Reading University and joined the Parachute Regiment in 1973. After more than thirty years in the army, serving in Northern Ireland, the First Gulf War and Bosnia, he retired to become a full-time military historian as well as a consultant military analyst in 2006. His previous books include 24 Hours at Waterloo (2015, WH Allen), 24 Hours at the Somme (2016, WH Allen) and Landing on the Edge of Eternity (2018, Pegasus Books). 24 Hours at Balaclava is his first book for The History Press. www.robertjkershaw.com

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2021
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: adam zamoyski, rodric Braithwaite, war by margaret macmillan, bob kershaw, soviet soldiers, moscow 1941 • Battle of Borodino • Battle of Moscow • bob kershaw • Eastern Front • Great Patriotic War • military history • military history, battle of borodino, battle of moscow, napoleonic wars, eastern front, great patriotic war, operation barbarossa, russia in the napoleonic wars, russia in the second world war, russia during ww2, russia during world war ii, napoleon’s grande armee, panzer division • moscow 1941 • napoleonic wars • napoleon’s grande armee • Operation Barbarossa • panzer division|adam zamoyski • Rodric Braithwaite • russia during world war ii • russia during ww2 • russia in the napoleonic wars • russia in the second world war • soviet soldiers • war by margaret macmillan
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-9759-1 / 0750997591
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-9759-1 / 9780750997591