1812 - Invasion of Russia, The - The Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars (2nd Edition, Limited Edition)

On 14th December 1812, a few thousand men, half-starved, frozen and riddled with disease staggered out of Imperial Russia and reached the relative safety of the West.

These were the remnants of Napoleon’s once magnificent Grande Armee of more than 500,000 men, the largest force ever assembled in Europe (possibly even in the World) at that time, which on 24 June had crossed the River Nieman and marched into the heart of Russia. So began what, by any standards, was one of the most catastrophic, dramatic, heroic, and significant in terms of both its short- and long-term consequences, military campaigns in history.

It was also Napoleon’s greatest gamble. A single throw of the dice on which he staked everything. And lost.

Now there is an opportunity to see if you can succeed where the most famous general in history failed, and change the course of history.