The new book of Mikhail Goldenkov about the war of 1812. What do we, in fact, know about her besides the official historical version of the Borodino battle, the novel “War and Peace” and Denis Davydov?
The history of the war with Napoleon is replete with white spots, especially concerns the actions that occurred among the western borders of the empire. The events of this war were covered very contradictory and selectively. Ordinary participants were built to the rank of heroes, heroes were deleted and betrayed, represented by insignificant statists. Entire armies disappeared and were located, exploits were invented, the names of the generals surfaced and disappeared, the victories of the Russians turned out to be imaginary; And invariably, especially in the Soviet period, grew up around the personality of Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov.
Of course, the official story is written for political purposes. But we, as people who are not related to politics, try to abstract from the “usefulness” or “harmfulness” of certain information in order to give everyone the right to form their own …
Author
Goldenkov Mikhail
Editor
Ivleva V.V.
Publisher
Bookmaster, 2014
Series
Scientific and popular publications
16+
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.