Berezina 3

The terrible Russian winter has engulfed the retreat, and the Grande Armée is no more. Mercilessly harassed by the fierce Cossacks, a few thousand men only continue to trudge forward, weak, starving, emaciated, leaving a trail of frozen dead behind. And as Russian regular forces prepare to surround and trap them, the weather suddenly turns warmer, making rivers impassable. To escape, they will have to somehow cross a river whose name would soon become synonymous with tragedy: the Berezina …

Patrick Rambaud is a veteran author who calculated having written over 100,000 pages over his long career, and now sits on the prestigious Goncourt Academy. Frédéric Richaud is a multi-talented individual who's written biographies, novels and several bande dessinée scripts. Ivan Gil, a Spanish artist and art teacher, was long a miniature designer.