The War of the Two Emperors. The Duel Between Napoleon and Alexander. Russia 1812

New York: Random House, 1985. Hardback. First Edition. The War of the Two Emporers. Slight shelf wear to edge of D/J. This book is one of those rare historical works in which the action and intrigue are practically nonstop, switching from the arrogant magnificence of St. Petersburg to the gaudy vulgarity of Napoleonic Paris, from the splendid assemblage of crowned heads att Dresden in May 1812 to the frozen hecatombs of common soldiers at Vilna in December, from boudoirs and ballrooms to the battlefield of Borodino, where in a few hours more men were slaughtered than in any single day of World War I. never had a departure for war more resembled a journey of pleasure than Napoleon's that spring; he returned at the end of the fall in a solitary carriage, rattling through the empty streets of Paris in the middle of the night. His Grande Armee, 45,000 strong when the Russian campaign began, had practically ceased to exist. Illustrated. 487 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.