It was to be Napoleon's Bonaparte's greatest adventure - an invastion of Russia with an army of more than 650,000 men, the largest the world had eber seen. The Emperor's irresistible progress into the vast Russian interior saw the battle of Borodino - one of the bloodiest day's fighting in military history. But the Emperor would finally be defeated, not in battle, but by a combination of Russian guile and the savage winter snows. Even noe, the infamous 'Retreat from Moscow' epitomizes the suffering of ordinary soldiers.