The Great White Army
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Surgeon-Major Janil de Constant first sees Moscow as a promised reward for Napoleon's soldiers. Once Constant enters the city, a stranger draws him into a grand house, where a young French artist lies dead and voices sound along a silent corridor. Max Pemberton builds his historical novel around Constant's account of the Russian campaign of 1812, with the surgeon's nephew, Captain Léon de Courcelles, often at the centre of its adventures.
The splendour of the arrival gives way to hunger, snow and danger during the retreat. In one episode, Constant and Léon watch mounted troops race past the hut where wolves have trapped them. The narrator's concern for his nephew brings a personal scale to the military disaster.
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- Author
- Max Pemberton
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 163
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classics
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