The war of the two emperors: the duel between Napoleon and Alexander: Russia, 1812.

National Review | December 19, 1986| | Copyright

Napoleon 1812, by Nigel Nicolson (Harper & Row, 192 pp., $16.95) The War of the Two Emperors: The Duel between Napoleon and Alexander: Russia, 1812, by Curtis Cate (Random House, 488 pp., $24.95)

NAPOLEON'S disastrous invasion of Russia is a vertiginously exciting, depressing, and unsettling subject; and for a host of confused and confusing reasons. One such reason is the six-month-long invasion itself--an exotic, titanic, tragic spectacle. But even here there is the question of point of view. Tolstoi's War and Peace must make us "Russian' in some way, indelibly. ...

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