My husband is reading Moscow 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski.

The French retreat “gave birth to Napoleon's superhuman legend - the myth of greatness in failure that would inspire . . . poets [&] future leaders to defy fate as he had done.”

Famous paintings, music (e.g., Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture) & many works of fiction and nonfiction have been inspired by this war and retreat. Zamoyski sees it as "a human tragedy on a colossal scale" and "the beginning of the end for Napoleon's empire and the rise of Russia's influence in world affairs."

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