This book will have you lost in a mattter of no time. I found it so borng with no insentive to have you keep reading it . It was just really really bad.

Not a big enthusiast of the Napoleonic war, I was still compelled to read this book, being one who enjoys to read such first-person accounts. I have to say, it was very much worth it. Indeed, it is a short book, and therefore a quick read; but it is infused with a wealth of information about the life of a soldier of this era. The prose is clean and clear, and like the previous reviewer states, in no way marred by the agenda of the more scholarly memoirist. I highly recommend this book.

This is an excellent little book which gives an insider's view into the horrors of Napoleon's ill-advised invasion of Russia in 1812...

This book should appeal mainly to Russian librarians and scholars. Most of the book lists the various holdings of Romanov and Imperial Palace library materials in the holdings of the New York Public Library. The compilation is by Personage (alphabetically from Emperor Alexander I to Grand Duke Vladimir Aleksandrovich, who has the greatest number of listings); then by Palaces and finally by The Fekula Donation, Summer, 1998. The listings are amply cross indexed by 1. Name and Title, 2. Places of Publication, 3. Publishers. 4.Date of Publication and finally, 5. Subject. There are only 10 illustrations of which 3 are in color. Annotations are minimal and confined mainly to descriptions of bindings and signatures without any consideration as to the importance of any particular book. One must have a working knowledge of Russian to understand most of the titles in the checklist as they are transliterated from the original Russian. The 47 page introduction by Robert H. Davis, Jr. and Edward Kasinec is fascinating as it tells how the books found their way out of Russia especially during the Soviet era. Only a man of such experience as Mr. Kasinec could write such an important essay. This is not a coffee table book.