And the unequal dispute was equal. Napoleon"s invasion of Russia and the death of the Great Army

In June 1812, over 600 thousand people crossed the state border of the Russian Empire from the east, and in December of the same year 58 thousand in the opposite direction. In just six months, it was killed, wounded, captured, missing, deserted, fell ill, more than half a million people died. How did this process develop in time? What is the number and loss of the Napoleonic army in the Battle of Borodino? Who is guilty of the fire of Moscow? What are the features of Kutuzov’s strategy, which allowed to defeat the numerous army, headed by the greatest commander of Western Europe? The numerous memories of contemporaries used in the book allow you to create a "effect of presence", to look at events through the eyes of their immediate participants. In the book, an extensive numerical material is collected, which is quite fully characterizing the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. The results of the studies of some aspects of the Patriotic War of 1812, obtained thanks to the quantitative analysis of numerical data, make it possible to look differently at the historical events and actions of the great personalities of that era, see the strengths and weaknesses of the decisions they make, understand how forced they were forced, To overestimate the prevailing stereotypes, answer a number of discussion questions