Napoleon described Marshal Michel Ney as the “bravest of the brave” for his stirring achievements and exploits in commanding the rearguard of the reeling Grande Armee during the 1812 retreat from Moscow. This current book is the first volume of the most stirring drama of the Napoleonic Wars. Ney was Napoleon’s finest marshal and he demonstrated this reality in full during the Russia Campaign, which was Napoleon’s greatest mistake of his distinguished career that resulted in the destruction of the Grande Armee.