- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Ravenhall Publishing (Nov 1 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1905043058
- ISBN-13: 978-1905043057
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 16.1 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 540 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,588,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Valuable First-Person Memoir From a Russian General in the Napoleonic Wars, July 25 2009
By David M. Dougherty - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Czars General The Memoirs of a Russian General (Hardcover)
This well-written (or edited and translated) account by Alexey Yermolov is valuable in understanding the Russian efforts against Napoleon. Yermolov's memoirs were produced from his detailed diary kept throughout the Napoleon Wars. Unfortunately, Yermolov's memoirs for the period 1813 to 1815 during which he served in the campaigns that pushed through Germany to Paris have been lost -- a tragedy for historians. Yermolov served in all the Russian campaigns against the French except for Suvorov's in 1799 in Northern Italy and Switzerland.The memoirs cover the actions seen and experienced by the writer and therefore lack a great deal of context which historians need in making use of this book. It is extremely useful for its ancedotal information, however, and to add information from the Russian side in the various battles and army movements. In effect, this work is only of minor interest to readers other than dedicated historians and persons interested in the Napoleonic Wars. This is a useful primary source rather than a book that would be interesting to the general reader.
Yermolov writes with vigor and does not shrink for offering the reader his unvarnished opinions. In that respect he provides a great amount of color to the drab recounting of actions in the East. In addition, his governorship of Georgia and actions in the Caucasus from 1815 to 1820 provide information on the problems in that region -- some of which persist to the present day -- that help put the Russian Empire's subjugation of non-Russian ethnic groups into proper perspective.
I recommend this book only those readers and historians that have a specific interest in the French-Russian conflicts during the Napoleonic Wars or in the history of the Caucasus.
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