Napoleon’s Frozen Nightmare: A Soldier’s Ordeal in the Russian Retreat
The year is 1812. The Grande Armée, Napoleon Bonaparte’s seemingly invincible force, lay shattered on the frozen plains of Russia. It was not the thunder of cannons or the clash of swords that claimed the most lives, but the brutal, unforgiving hand of winter. For a common soldier, stripped of glory and stripped of hope, … Read more