Description
Pre-owned. Believing he was settling into comfortable winter quarters, Bourgogne found himself together with his comrades of the Velite Fusilier – Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard – on the road to the west. Bourgogne’s account of the agonies of the Russian Winter exacerbated by hunger, brigands and the Russian enemy is graphic and without parallel. It is almost surreal in its portrayal of the nightmarish scenes of the straggling column and the hellish infernos of burning towns. Grey cloth cover with no dust jacket. Some pages at the front of the book are loose and one is detached. Some pronounced deckle edging, and there is a signature in ink on the first page. Hardcover. Published by Heinemann 1899