The incredible adventures of a French Royalist officer
This is a personal account of the Napoleonic Wars from a rare perspective. The author was a French aristocrat and royalist who fled from Paris as a child after his mother was discovered to be involved in the plot to free Marie-Antoinette. He joined an emigre regiment at an early age and fought with the Portuguese. He later joined the Russian Army, eventually becoming an aide-de-camp to the Tsar, Alexander I. When France invaded Russia in 1812, Rochechouart was mobilised to Tormassov's Russian army fighting at the capture of Minsk and at the Berezina where he witnessed the debacle of the river crossing by the French Army in retreat. He fought in the final battles in Germany which brought about the defeat of Napoleon including Lutzen, Dresden, Kulm and Leipzig, and also in the Six Days Campaign as the allied forces closed upon Paris itself. He became Military Governor of Paris, holding the post until 1821, and was present at the execution of Marshal Ney. This is a fascinating memoir from the perspective of a French nobleman who opposed the First Empire of the French and its emperor. Contains maps and illustrations not present in earlier editions of the book.
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Автор: Rey Marie-Pierre Название: Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon ISBN: 0875807550 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780875807553 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве. Описание:
Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. In this magisterial biography, Marie-Pierre Rey illuminates the complex forces that shaped Alexander's tumultuous reign and sheds brilliant new light on the handsome ruler known to his people as "the Sphinx."
Despite an early and ambitious commitment to sweeping political reforms, Alexander saw his liberal aspirations overwhelmed by civil unrest in his own country and by costly confrontations with Napoleon, which culminated in the French invasion of Russia and the burning of Moscow in 1812. Eventually, Alexander turned back Napoleon's forces and entered Paris a victor two years later, but by then he had already grown weary of military glory. As the years passed, the tsar who defeated Napoleon would become increasingly preoccupied with his own spiritual salvation, an obsession that led him to pursue a rapprochement between the Orthodox and Roman churches.
When in exile, Napoleon once remarked of his Russian rival: "He could go far. If I die here, he will be my true heir in Europe." It was not to be. Napoleon died on Saint Helena and Alexander succumbed to typhus four years later at the age of forty-eight. But in this richly nuanced portrait, Rey breathes new life into the tsar who stood at the center of the political chessboard of early nineteenth-century Europe, a key figure at the heart of diplomacy, war, and international intrigue during that region's most tumultuous years.
Автор: Beckett Stephen M. Название: Waterloo Betrayed: The Secret Treachery That Defeated Napoleon ISBN: 0986375756 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986375750 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 72790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: David Frey Название: Failure to Pursue: How the Escape of Defeated Forces Prolonged the Civil War ISBN: 1476666695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476666693 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 44350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Was the US Civil War preordained to last four years or were there reasons why neither side could land a knockout punch? Taking a fresh look at the zero-sum tactics that characterized many major combat actions in the war, this book examines the performance of unsuccessful (sometimes insubordinate) commanders and credits two generals with eventually seeing the need for organized pursuit.
Автор: Jessel Walter Название: Class of `31: A German-Jewish Йmigrй`s Journey Across Defeated Germany ISBN: 1618116525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618116529 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 79470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A beautifully written memoir from Walter Jessel, a German Jew determined to answer the question that haunted him since emigrating to the United States in 1938: Would the people of other nations, if they were placed in the same position as the Germans during the Hitler regime, behave in the same manner?
Автор: Crotty Robert Название: The Christian Survivor: How Roman Christianity Defeated Its Early Competitors ISBN: 9811098190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811098192 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How Roman Christianity Defeated Its Early Competitors
Автор: Robert Crotty Название: The Christian Survivor ISBN: 9811032130 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811032134 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How Roman Christianity Defeated Its Early Competitors
Автор: Jessel Walter Название: Class of `31: A German-Jewish Йmigrй`s Journey Across Defeated Germany ISBN: 1618116509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618116505 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A beautifully written memoir from Walter Jessel, a German Jew determined to answer the question that haunted him since emigrating to the United States in 1938: Would the people of other nations, if they were placed in the same position as the Germans during the Hitler regime, behave in the same manner?
Автор: Telberg George Gustav, Wilton Robert Название: The Last Days of the Romanovs: The Murder of the Tsar & the Russian Royal Family, 1918 ISBN: 1782820809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782820802 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 41440.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The end of a dynasty It is likely that few of those who contributed to the outbreak of the First World War would have imagined its consequences or predicted which nations would prevail, which would fall in defeat and which would all but cease to exist. Very few would have foreseen the fall of so many of the royal houses of Europe and yet this came to pass; most prominent among them were the Romanovs of Russia. It was almost inconceivable that the Tsar, who ruled over a vast territory and many millions of subjects, would be murdered (or executed, according to one's sensibility) with all of his immediate family such a short time from when the power and influence of the Romanovs had seemed immutable. But this was an age of global warfare on an industrial scale, and of revolution and political change that would affect the nature of war and peace for a century to come. This highly regarded book considers in detail the downfall of the Russian Imperial family, and the authors have drawn upon eyewitness testimony of those who were close to these historic events. The narrative follows the Romanovs to their deaths, ordered by Lenin, in a Yekaterinburg cellar, so preventing the Tsar becoming a figure for the White Russians to rally around. An essential and recommended work for any student of the fall of monarchy, Russian involvement in the Great War and the rise of Bolshevism. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Автор: Engel Barbara Alpern Название: Five Sisters ISBN: 0875806902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780875806907 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 21730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Violent movements opposing existing political orders erupted throughout nineteenth-century Europe, but nowhere was this revolutionary impulse made more dramatically visible than in Russia. This title presents English translations of the memoirs of five Russia`s female revolutionaries.
Автор: Bittner, Stephen V. (Professor of History, Professor of History, Sonoma State University, USA) Название: Whites and Reds ISBN: 0198784821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198784821 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 104550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Whites and Reds illuminates the ideas, controversies, political alliances, technologies, business practices, international networks, growers, vintners, connoisseurs, and consumers who shaped the history of wine in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union over more than two centuries.
Автор: Martin, Alexander M. (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame) Название: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars ISBN: 0192844377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192844378 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 96140.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Presenting a broad panorama of society and culture in the German lands and Russia from the Enlightenment to the breakthrough of modernity, this microhistory of one extraordinary family explores how the lives of individual people are entangled with the great forces of their age.
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