The Battle of Two Empires. 1805-1812
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The Battle of Two Empires. 1805-1812
29.99 €
Oleg Valerievich Sokolov - one of the world's greatest experts on the history of the Napoleonic era, Commander of the Legion of Honor, the highest award of the French Republic - on the pages of this book reveals the mystery of Napoleon's fateful decision to go to war with Russia in 1812. What was the true cause of the armed confrontation between Russia and France? What led to the failure of attempts at a Franco-Russian alliance? Was war with Russia on Napoleon's part his true purpose and desire? How was the "Polish Question" resolved by the parties to the conflict and what was its role in the confrontation between the Great Powers? Were Alexander I and his empire victims of Napoleon's aggressive plans? Did the Russian emperor have plans for a preventive war with Bonaparte-controlled Europe? Whose intelligence was stronger and more sophisticated in extracting information about the enemy? What was the role of Great Britain and the Franco-British conflict in the fate of Russian-French relations? How did the continental blockade actually affect the economy of the Russian Empire? Was it possible for Alexander I, provided he remained faithful to the spirit and letter of the Tilsit and Erfurt agreements, to extend the borders of Russian influence to the axis Stockholm-Constantinople-Bosporus-Balkany? In the already legendary book by the leading historian of the Napoleonic Wars on all these, and many other complex questions of diplomatic competition between the two great powers, clear answers are given, based on a wide source base of both Russian and French documents, many of which for the first time come to light from the archives, available to the mass reader.
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