Napoleon's Russian Campaign Author:Count Philippe-Paul de Segur, J. David Townsend (Translator) "[These are] the diaries of Bonaparte's aide-de-camp, Philippe-Paul, Comte de Segur, which were first published in 1824. [This edition] is a reissue of the 1958 translation by the late J. David Townsend, with an introduction by Peter Gay. De Segur's account of the march on Moscow is a work of reflection and justification as well as narrative, bu... more »t it still conveys the horror." --London Times
"Count de Segur's famed diary of Napoleon?s Russian campaign is not just another book about Bonaparte; it is the main source of a thousand schoolbooks, cartoons, legends, sermons and second thoughts for would-be conquerors. Segur, a war chronicler ranking with Herodotus and Bernal Diaz, wonderfully evokes the opening scenes of the disastrous war." -- Time magazine
"The influence of the work now made available in a new translation, was felt for many years. The giants of literature used it as a source book and as an inspiration. It is still the most vivid account of that apocalyptic disaster; its appeal is eternal." -- The New York Times
"Segur served throughout the Napoleonic era as an aide-de-camp to the Emperor, becoming a brigadier on the eve of the Russian campaign. His memoirs remain the classic account of the destruction of the Grand Army." -- Parameters, The US Army War College Quarterly« less