With Napoleon in Russia 1812

This is the campaign diary of Heinrich August Vossler, a young Wurttemberg cavalry lieutenant serving with Napoleon's Grande Armee. He records the 1812 march into Russia: heat, failing supply, the fighting around Smolensk, his part in the southern action at Borodino, and the retreat he survived without reaching Moscow. Later pages follow his return to duty in 1813, capture on a reconnaissance, and months as a prisoner moved through Poland and Russia. He writes as a junior officer about horses, weather, food, and the men beside him. The book is a personal narrative, not a general staff history of the invasion.

Bound in white cloth printed with a wrap-around monotone picture and a maroon spine title label. Mottled grey slipcase, but 2015 reprint had dark brown slipcase.