‘Elegantly delivers gripping storytelling, bold revisionism,
and poignant suffering’
SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, Evening Standard
‘Read this book and you will feel that you have as good as lived Napoleon’s march on Moscow’
Daily Mail
‘An uncommonly vivid narrative of Bonaparte’s disastrous Russian campaign’
MAX HASTINGS
‘An epic account’
Observer
‘Zamoyski is such an economical and elegant writer …
This is a great book’
Sunday Times
‘Vividly described. No historian has dug
so deeply into eyewitness accounts’
Literary Review
‘A gripping tale’
Economist