This Thursday, March 2, 2017, at 3 PM at the Garibaldi Associations space under the auspices of the association “For the Panache”
“It is striking to notice the many similarities between the 1812 Russian campaign led by Napoleon and the 1941 Barbarossa operation ordered by Hitler, between the tragic fate of the Grande Armée and the failure of the Wehrmacht at the gates of Moscow.
Of course, Napoleon is not Hitler, but it is clear that the two men are nevertheless confronted, 130 years apart, with the same strategic problem: After having conquered most of continental Europe, they must defeat the same adversary, Russia, to definitively secure their regime.”