Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 18121813 eBook Adrien Bourgogne
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This is a fascinating account of Napoleon and his Grande Armee invading Russia and then the torturous retreat that is now a by-word for poor military leadership and even worse decision making. Written by an officer serving under Napoleon, it gives a heart stopping first person view of one of the most famous botched campaigns in military history, a campaign that ended with 30,000 troops returning to France from an original force of over 600,000.
Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 18121813 eBook Adrien Bourgogne
Bourgogne's story is frightenly matter of fact as he describes tens of thousands of soldiers who made up Napoleon's Grand Army plodding from the ashes of Moscow back along the path they had just followed weeks earlier on the way across Russia. Defeated by the Russian army? No, their loss came at the hands of freezing weather and the discovery that their leader's plan to spend the winter living off enemy supplies sheltering inside enemy homes went up in smoke as Russian soldiers, prisoners and patriots torched their own capital. I was fascinated by this little-known memoir that was tucked away in dusty French archives for more than a century. Having once been a modern day US Army 11B--an infantryman--I felt as if I walked alongside Burgogne during the retreat, reveling over the discovery of a bit of flour or a bottle of alcohol, fortunate to gnaw on a sliver of horseflesh when other soldiers were forced to consume their dead fellows in order to survive another day.Product details
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Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 18121813 eBook Adrien Bourgogne Reviews
Even though I know next to nothing concerning the Napoleonic Wars, I enjoyed this memoir immensely. I like reading Veterans accounts of War's ie Civil War, Trans-Mississippi valley expansion period, World War One etc This French Sgt's account is lively, gritty, revealing, and thought provoking. He describes acts of cannibalism, war wounds, and death on a massive scale, leaving nothing to the readers imagination. For something written so long ago, I was surprised at the candor. Should be included in your first hand accounts of war collection.
It seems amazing that someone could survive such a terrible adventure. The survivors were fortunate there were so many horses available because horse meat seemed to be one of the few sources of food. Funny how the author still had such allegiance to the emperor. It was because of Napoleons huge ego and desire for world conquest that they were subjected to such misery.
His story reminds me of another contemporary who wrote of his experiences during the retreat. Having done my share of long marches, I remain amazed at what these soldiers endured with the equipment of the day, and forever humbled. The individual encounters and experiences with the differing peoples, including Cossacks, not to mention Napoleon, Ney, and the events in Moscow, are valuable and insightful.
Amazing. How anyone could have survived his situation had to be a real miracle. I would certainly like to see this a motion picture. Probably not a recipe for a blockbuster in today's audiences. Alas, a time that gone.
The book is Sergeant Bourgogne's memories of the 1812 French campaign in Russia. It is from the point of view of an infantry man. The descriptions of the hardships are very vivid. It is clear from his writings that there was a break down in unit integrity and a lack of discipline due mainly to the lack of food. "With Napoleon in Russia" by General De Caulaincourt. gives more background on the reasons it went so badly. Descriptions of the retreat itself are similar, but the general was not so involved in the struggle for survival. Both books were written much later.
A fast moving action packed account, but little analysis and character development. The author claims that all account is true, however some of the events seem a bit hard to believe. He never commented what happened to his brother, and also what happened to him in the end which ended abruptly. Nevertheless, the story was a good place to get a first hand account of what happened in the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in 1812 and the horrible loss of life and property. Napoleon' s army burned all the farm houses on the way to Moscow but suffered horribly on the way out in the winter because of lack of shelter, self inflicted and deserved.
This book was great. The author does an excellent job of describing the horrors of the Russian invasion in ways that allow the reader to actually picture what he saw at the time. This book was written as a novel and I would rank it better than any fiction book I had ever read. There is striking attention to detail and anyone needing to do a research project on the invasion would find this as an endless source of primary information. Finally the author did not have any axes to grind making his story very believable and non biased. Forget Sandra Bullock getting stuck in space and finding her way home, this book alone blows that out of the water. Hollywood needs to make this a movie.
Bourgogne's story is frightenly matter of fact as he describes tens of thousands of soldiers who made up Napoleon's Grand Army plodding from the ashes of Moscow back along the path they had just followed weeks earlier on the way across Russia. Defeated by the Russian army? No, their loss came at the hands of freezing weather and the discovery that their leader's plan to spend the winter living off enemy supplies sheltering inside enemy homes went up in smoke as Russian soldiers, prisoners and patriots torched their own capital. I was fascinated by this little-known memoir that was tucked away in dusty French archives for more than a century. Having once been a modern day US Army 11B--an infantryman--I felt as if I walked alongside Burgogne during the retreat, reveling over the discovery of a bit of flour or a bottle of alcohol, fortunate to gnaw on a sliver of horseflesh when other soldiers were forced to consume their dead fellows in order to survive another day.
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