In the Legions of Napoleon

In this classic memoir, a Polish soldier chronicles his military service under Napoleon, battling in Spain and Russia during the early nineteenth Century. In the Legions of Napoleon recounts the adventures of an intrepid Polish soldier who fought for Napoleon the length and breadth of Europe. By the time he was twenty-five, Heinrich von Brandt had marched from Madrid to Moscow and had been severely wounded on three separate occasions. From 1808 to 1812 he was caught up in Napoleon’s attempt to s