History of the Expedition to Russia, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812. in Two Volumes. [Bonaparte]

viii, 341; 370 pp. Navy blue leather spines and corners, light blue cloth boards, gilt titles and rules. Includes fold-out campaign map and frontispiece portraits of Napoleon, Ney, and Murat. An account of the disastrous campaign to invade Russia by way of Poland in 1812. The invasion lasted six months, and the Grande Armee lost more than 300,000 men. It halted Napoleon's European campaign and resulted in his first exile to Elba.