The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier

The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier

By Jakob Walter
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“Walter's writing is unemotional and non-interpretive; he describes straightforwardly what he experienced.”

Publishers Weekly

Napoleon's surrender and retreat from Moscow in 1812 is a pinnacle of military horror. Of the 600,000 men who crossed into Russia in June of 1812, only 25,000 would survive. Jakob Walter, a conscript soldier, was one of those survivors. His observant diary captures the everyday circumstances that soldiers suffered during the campaign.