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User Review - Schmerguls - LibraryThing1032 The Retreat from Moscow, by R. F. Delderfield (read 6 Nov 1969) This is an intriguing account of Napoleon's Russian adventure in 1812. The account, written by a British historian, is not overly ... Read full review
Contents
ONE Which is the way to Moscow? | 13 |
TWO The Reluctant Don Quixote | 35 |
THREE Everything goes well | 49 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Retreat from Moscow |
| Author | Ronald Frederick Delderfield |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Atheneum, 1967 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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