LEIPZIG LA BATAILLE DES NATIONS

This essay published by Editions Perrin is by Bruno Colson, a specialist in books on military history. In it, the writer retraces, over 496 pages, the Battle of the Nations, which took place in Leipzig from 16 to 19 October 1813. An event of scale by the number of fighters (500,000 men), forever engraved in the history of the Saxon city. This battle, which lasted four days between Napoleonic troops and the soldiers of a formidable Russian-Austrian-Preussis-Swedish alliance, precipitated the withdrawal of the emperor's troops from Germany.