# Defeat

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- Book: [Defeat](https://www.bookquiver.com/phillipe-paul-de-segur/defeat) ([Defeat.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/phillipe-paul-de-segur/defeat.md))
- Authors: [Phillipe-Paul de Ségur](https://www.bookquiver.com/phillipe-paul-de-segur), [Mark Danner](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-danner), [J. David Townsend](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-david-townsend)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-282-7
- Pages: 328
- Published: 2008-10-21
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the summer of 1812 Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. He was about to undertake the most daring of all his many campaigns:...