When Napoleon invaded Russia in the summer of 1812, victory seemed certain—but then came winter. Five years after Napoléon Bonaparte’s retreat from Russia, Stendhal, the French novelist, who had been a supply officer in the emperor’s army during the 1812 campaign, was still afraid of snow: “The retreat from Moscow has left me plainly suspicious …
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