Moscow Flames (72 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Black cl., red lettering, design, to cover and backstr. Top, bottom of backstr. sl. rubbed. Sl. insect damage to hinge of front endpaper, 10 tiny holes to back endpaper where it is glued to cover. 475pp.

Condition: New. In.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. RARE EX-LIBRARY 1st edition hardback with dustjacket,published by Hurst & Blackett, 1969. Plastic cover, usual library marks. Bumping to spine & covers, minor damage to inside cover, tanning to pages. Fair. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. RARE EX-LIBRARY 1st edition hardback with dustjacket,published by Hurst & Blackett, 1969. Plastic cover, usual library marks, Ffep removed. Bumping to spine, curve to top corner, shelf wear & tanning. Fair only. book.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 318 pages. Scarce title. Orange cloth, faded and sunned in places, spine worn and slightly discolored with dullness to gilt title. Front hinge cracked, and page edges slightly darkened. No dust jacket. No marks, inscriptions or stamps. Record # 605887.

Hardcover. Condition: G+. No Jacket. First American Edition. Brick-red boards with gold lettering. A couple small spots on the front board. Lightly rubbed at the corners and the spine tips. Strong hinges. Clean pages. A tear on the front endpapers repaired with archival tape. Scarce edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Scarce title. A very good copy with shop library markings in endpapers, tidy pages. The dust jacket is price clipped, otherwise intact and bright, has been well protected.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Both book & DJ - not price clipped - are very clean, bright & tight. No markings or inscriptions.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 344 pages; Description: 344 p. 20 cm. Subjects: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 --Campaigns --Russia --Fiction. History --Alexander I, 1801-1825. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hbk, 318p. London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1917. Covers dulled and edges foxed, neat bookplate on rear pastedown o/w an unmarked copy in perfectly acceptable condition. [French invasion - Napoleon - Russian - Novel] g80 / m5117.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 344 pages; Description: 344 p. 20 cm. Subjects: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 --Campaigns --Russia --Fiction. History --Alexander I, 1801-1825. 1 Kg.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Ed. 318 pages, binding cracked a bit at pages 176/ 177. Cloth quite clean.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American edition, octavo, original brown cloth over boards, gilt stamped text on front cover and spine. From Russian historical novelist and Privy Councillor Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky, translated from the original Russian by Angelo Solomon Rappoport. Very Good; light shelf wear to edges and spine ends.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. September 1812. Napoleon's Grande Armee has crossed Russia and fought its way to Moscow. Kutuzov has abandoned the city. The streets are nearly empty - 270,000 inhabitants gone in the space of days. On the night of September 14, as the French enter, fires break out across the city. By September 18, two-thirds of Moscow is ash.Grigory Danilevsky's Moscow in Flames (1886) follows Aurora Kramahn through the catastrophe of the French occupation and the burning of the ancient capital - through streets emptied of everything familiar, through a city that has been deliberately sacrificed, through the weeks Napoleon spent waiting in the ruins for a peace offer from Tsar Alexander that never came. Around Aurora he assembles the full range of people caught in the disaster: those who fled and those who stayed, those who acted on principle and those who simply survived, witnesses to one of the decisive events of the century.The fire itself remains disputed history. Count Rostopchin, Moscow's military governor, disbanded the fire brigade and removed its equipment before evacuating; captured arsonists confessed to acting on his orders; Rostopchin denied it all. Napoleon watched from the Kremlin and called it an act of extraordinary Russian self-sacrifice. The debate has not been settled in two hundred years. What Danilevsky understood - writing in 1886, with Tolstoy's War and Peace already standing as the epic treatment of the same events - was that the disaster had a human interior that the philosophical epic could not entirely contain. His novel works at the level of individual experience: what it is to be inside a city that is burning, occupied by a foreign army that has marched from Paris and finds nothing left to conquer.Danilevsky brought to this subject an archival novelist's commitment to documentary specificity, shaped by years of examining provincial records across Russia and Ukraine as a civil servant. The result was, by contemporary accounts, his most popular work - a historical novel in the tradition that Russian writers had adapted from Walter Scott, whose strengths lie in narrative urgency, historical texture, and the insistence that great events are always, beneath their strategic surfaces, the sum of what individual people endured. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - September 1812. Napoleon's Grande Armée has crossed Russia and fought its way to Moscow. Kutuzov has abandoned the city. The streets are nearly empty - 270,000 inhabitants gone in the space of days. On the night of September 14, as the French enter, fires break out across the city. By September 18, two-thirds of Moscow is ash.Grigory Danilevsky's Moscow in Flames (1886) follows Aurora Kramahn through the catastrophe of the French occupation and the burning of the ancient capital - through streets emptied of everything familiar, through a city that has been deliberately sacrificed, through the weeks Napoleon spent waiting in the ruins for a peace offer from Tsar Alexander that never came. Around Aurora he assembles the full range of people caught in the disaster: those who fled and those who stayed, those who acted on principle and those who simply survived, witnesses to one of the decisive events of the century.The fire itself remains disputed history. Count Rostopchin, Moscow's military governor, disbanded the fire brigade and removed its equipment before evacuating; captured arsonists confessed to acting on his orders; Rostopchin denied it all. Napoleon watched from the Kremlin and called it an act of extraordinary Russian self-sacrifice. The debate has not been settled in two hundred years. What Danilevsky understood - writing in 1886, with Tolstoy's War and Peace already standing as the epic treatment of the same events - was that the disaster had a human interior that the philosophical epic could not entirely contain. His novel works at the level of individual experience: what it is to be inside a city that is burning, occupied by a foreign army that has marched from Paris and finds nothing left to conquer.Danilevsky brought to this subject an archival novelist's commitment to documentary specificity, shaped by years of examining provincial records across Russia and Ukraine as a civil servant. The result was, by contemporary accounts, his most popular work - a historical novel in the tradition that Russian writers had adapted from Walter Scott, whose strengths lie in narrative urgency, historical texture, and the insistence that great events are always, beneath their strategic surfaces, the sum of what individual people endured.

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: VG. New York 1930 first edition Macmillan. Translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington. Hardcover. Octavo, 475p., black cloth with orange ink lettering. VG plus, almost no wear, in original bold black and orange Good DJ, a few small chips, worn at spine ends, one inch closed tear.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Unfolding in the historical tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, this book masterfully recreates the electrifying atmosphere of Moscow on the brink of invasion. Through the intertwined lives of its characters, the author explores the complex panorama of Russian society at this turning point in history. The book delves deep into the era's social and political landscape, capturing the fears, aspirations, and fierce patriotism of the time. It presents a nuanced examination of the Napoleonic Wars' impact on Russian society and the profound choices individuals had to make in the face of national crisis. With its gripping narrative and insightful portrayal of a pivotal moment in history, the author offers a rich and evocative perspective on Russia's past, making this book an enlightening read for enthusiasts of historical fiction and those interested in the intricacies of human experience during war. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Condition: New.