<p>The Battle is the book Balzac always wanted to write and, beginning his story with Balzac’s own words (‘On Tuesday 16th May 1809...’), Rambaud has finally achieved his predecessor’s dream.</p>
<p>The eponymous battle – now commonly described as Napoleon’s first major defeat on land in Europe – took place at Essling, near Vienna; forty thousand men died in forty-eight hours. With vivid detail and meticulous accuracy, Rambaud paints a frighteningly convincing picture of the scene, imbuing the reader with a sense of the full horror and fascination of combat. With a cast enlivened by real people – Marshals Berthier, Lanne and Masséna, the writer Stendhal, the painter Lejeune and, of course, the Emperor himself, The Battle is at once an incredible and epic book, a captivating literary recreation and a spellbinding portrait of one of history’s most enigmatic characters.</p>

The Battle

Literature & Fiction

Patrick Rambaud

Genre Fiction

Picador

Following on from Patrick Rambaud's Goncourt Prize winning novel, The Battle, The Retreat offers an extraordinarily vivid and memorable depiction of the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. A sense of dread and the knowledge that the French will have to retreat from Moscow combine with Rambaud's great narrative flair to create a mesmerizing and tense drama. A dire account of human suffering proves, in the second volume of Rambaud's acclaimed Napoleonic trilogy, a striking testament to the extremes of human behaviour in adversity.

The Retreat

Contemporary

'The second in Rambaud's Napoleonic trilogy deals with the most traumatic event in French history after the Occupation -- Napoleon's retreat from Moscow' Guardian As Rambaud's characters -- D'Herbigny, Paulin and others -- continue the story begun in The Battle, The Retreat unfolds as a convincing and gripping account of a country at war; a mesmerizing and tense drama spun from the story of the French retreat. Told with great narrative flair, precision and vivid detail, Rambaud's account of dire human suffering is both horrific and compelling; a striking testament to the extremes of human behaviour in adversity. 'A chance to get the French version of events' Guardian

Pan/Macmillan

The Exile

Exile

GROVE PRESS

Les aventures de mai: Feuilleton historique (French Edition)

Le Monde

Moi, Président, je demanderai à Patrick Rambaud de ne pas m écrire de chronique du règne de François Ier... »C était impossible en effet : François Ier était pris, tout comme le méconnu François II, l impossible François III. Et François IV fut roi de Modène.Patrick Rambaud s est donc choisi un roi de haut calibre : François le Petit.Nicolas Sarkozy était romanesque à souhait, contourné, faux, kärcherisé, entretenant une cour volatile et dorée.Avec sa montre en plastique et ses costumes bleu trempés, François le Petit est théâtral : en son palais de confetti, avec son casque à visière, au côté de ses femmes...Pour sauver la France et de l ennui et du médiocre, votez Patrick Rambaud !

Francois Le Petit (French Edition)

French and European Publications Inc

La Grammaire En S'amusant (French Edition)

Distribooks, Inc

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