Following on from Patrick Rambaud's Goncourt Prize winning novel, The Battle, The Retreat offers an extraordinarily vivid and memorable depiction of the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. A sense of dread and the knowledge that the French will have to retreat from Moscow combine with Rambaud's great narrative flair to create a mesmerizing and tense drama. A dire account of human suffering proves, in the second volume of Rambaud's acclaimed Napoleonic trilogy, a striking testament to the extremes of human behaviour in adversity.
- ISBN10 0871138778
- ISBN13 9780871138774
- Publish Date 18 November 2004 (first published 1 April 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Atlantic Monthly Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English