Title: In the Service of the Tsar Against Napoleon: The Memoirs of Denis Davidov, 1806-1814
Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1853673730
ISBN 13: 9781853673733
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good

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Denis Davidov was an officer of hussars, a partisan, a Russian hero and the inspiration for the character Denisov in Tolstoys epic War and Peace. Here, for the very first time in English, are his captivating memoirs which, with dash and lan, convey the Russian perspective on this cataclysmic conflict. Davidovs memoirs cover the confrontation between the French and Russians in Prussia in 18067, including the horrific battle of Eylau; the Russian invasion of Finland in 1808; the French invasion of Russia in 1812; and the War of Liberation in Germany in 181314. The memoirs cover the 1812 campaign in particular in great detail as it was here that Davidov made his legendary reputation. Gregory Troubetzkoy is an expert on Russian aspects of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Before World War II, it was the campaign to expel Napoleon from Russia in 1812 that was deemed the great patriotic struggle in Russian history. Troubetzkoy, a Florida resident, has written extensively on the Napoleonic wars. In editing the memoirs of Davidov, he provides an invaluable view of some critical campaigns from a Russian perspective. Davidov served as a partisan during the 1812 campaign, and his memoirs are characterized by a chilling intensity that fully conveys the savagery of the fighting. While his observations are inevitably one-sided and occasionally self-serving, they still display a deep understanding of the irony and even futility of war. This is a deeply stirring account of one man's experiences during one of the most important epochs in European history. Jay Freeman

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