Just finished Dominic Leiven's superb 'Russia vs Napoleon'. It is a truly seminal work with much original research. And concurently I watched the 20 episodes of BBC's 1972 adaption of Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' with Anthony Hopkins. Its very dated and probably percevied as 'slow' by today's standards, but the Austerlitz, Borodino and Retreat episodes are particularly worthwhile - real snow and frozen breath - no Snowworks in those days.
Its all good prep for The Cultural Experience's bicentenneray battlefield tour to Russia in September 2012 - see http://www.theculturalexperience.com/battlefield_tours/napoleon_1812.php and www.theculturalexperience.com
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