During the Russian campaign of 1812, a battalion of former Spanish prisoners recruited to fight for Napoleons army defects to side with the Russians. The Emperor believes the battalions actions to be heroic and dispatches a cavalry unit to assist them. Using this historical event as the premise for this story, Arturo Perez-Reverte reveals a caustic and brutal vision of war, patriotism and anonymous acts of heroism in short, an entertainingly tragic outlook of the human condition.
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During the Russian campaign of 1812, a battalion of former Spanish prisoners recruited to fight for Napoleons army defects to side with the Russians. The Emperor believes the battalions actions to be heroic and dispatches a cavalry unit to assist them. Using this historical event as the premise for this story, Arturo Perez-Reverte reveals a caustic and brutal vision of war, patriotism and anonymous acts of heroism in short, an entertainingly tragic outlook of the human condition.
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