Goldencov. Mysteries of 1812. Ice and Flame

New book Mikhail Goldenova about the war of 1812. What do we actually know about it except the official historical version of the Borodino battle, the novel "War and the world" yes Denis Davydova?
The history of the War with Napoleon is replete with white spots, especially this concerns the actions taken from the Western borders of the Empire. The events of this war covered very contradictory and selectively. Ordinary participants were built into the rank of heroes, the heroes were drawn up and betrayed with oblivion, represented insignificant statists. A whole armies disappeared and were invented, feats were invented, and the names of the generals, Russian victories turned out to be imaginary, and consistently, especially in the Soviet period, grew up the myths around the personality of Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov.
Of course, official history is written for political purposes. But we, as people who are not related to politics, try to abstract from the "utility" or "harmfulness" of those or more information to provide each right to form our own view on the events of those days and people in these events participating