Through Russian Snows
by G. A. Henty
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons 1902
ISBN/ASIN: B002WPFH0O
Description:
There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the enormous loss of life entailed, appeal to the imagination in so great a degree as that of Napoleon against Russia.
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