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The Battle Book 1/3 by Patrick Rambaud, Frederic Richaud (Paperback, 2020)

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By Frederic Richaud, Patrick Rambaud, Ivan Gil. Adapted from a novel that won both the French Academy Grand Prize and the Goncourt Prize. A dynamic, bright style perfectly adapted to the colourful battlefield of that era.

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Louis-Francois Lejeune, young colonel attached to the emperor's staff, meets his old friend Henri Beyne in occupied Vienna. He also meets the beautiful Anna Krauss, with whom he is madly in love with. Nearby, though, Napoleon is attempting to crush the Austrian army, and organising the crossing of the Danube for his troops on a single pontoon bridge hurriedly erected near Essling. Louis-Francois is forced to abandon his love and return to the front and the coming firestorm