Army of Napoleon

The first edition of the legendary book in twenty years! This book, of course, is the largest scientific work, which first showed the army of Napoleon Bonaparte not just as a gray mass of soldiers, has long become a desktop for all genuine connoisseurs of the Napoleonic era, both in Russia and abroad. It gives the reader the opportunity to look at the army, who fought throughout Europe for fifteen years, through which millions of people passed, from the inside, considering in detail not only its structure, weapons, tactics of battle, moral spirit, influence on civil society, but also the strategy and operational art of Napoleon . The language of the book is bright and colorful, sometimes there is a feeling that it is written by a contemporary of those events, and at the same time, absolutely all the author’s judgments are based on the colossal volume of sources - thousands of documents from French archives, hundreds of volumes of published materials, hundreds of diaries and evidence of eyewitnesses.
Oleg Valerievich Sokolov - one of the leading specialists in the history of the Napoleonic era, associate professor of the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University, who has worked in French archives for decades. In perfectly, owning the French language, freely oriented in the documents inaccessible to many domestic researchers, the author of this, truly fundamental work, gave a bright picture of the life of Napoleon’s army with wide strokes. For their activities in the study of the history of France, for the creation of groups of military -historical reconstruction, engaged in the reconstruction of the appearance of the Napoleonic army, Oleg Sokolov, the only Russian historian received the highest award of the French Republic - the Order of the Legion of Honor