For educational purposes<br /><br />With the Peninsular War still raging, Napoleon made a fateful decision in 1812 when he turned his attentions east and the Grand Army began an invasion of Russia. <br /><br />Nothing could have prepared them for what lay ahead as they marched slowly towards Moscow. <br /><br />Little did they know that of the half a million men who crossed the Russian border, fewer than fifty thousand would ever see their homeland again. <br /><br />This episode tells the story of Napoleon's greatest mistake his ill-fated Russian adventure that spelt the beginning of the end for the Emperor. <br /><br />The episode includes the story of the bloody Battle of Borodino and the appalling horrors of the French retreat from Moscow.
