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The title of this book is Napoleon is Dead is Russia and the author is Guido Artom. ... His companions used to tease him about those flat flee of his calling him Polyte Flatfoot, but is was because of his feet that he had managed to get put into the 10th Cohort of the National Guard, which consisted of men exempt from active service because they were unfit or specially favored-instead of being pitch forked into a regiment of the line, in Russia or Spain.
They has heard about the battle of Borodino, a great victory that opened that gates of Moscow, so the bulletin says, but people talked most about the dead, the greatest number of dead in all Napoleon’s fifteen years of battles and victories. What they wanted was peace, a good general peace, and that Napoleon and the rest should calm down and stop giving themselves indigestion with kingdoms and principalities, and the marshals stop gorging themselves with appendages and ducal crowns. ... They’d see which of them was right, those policemen who declared Napoleon was alive or he, Malet, who pronounced him dead: it could not be otherwise, for he himself had decreed it.
Approximate Word count = 925
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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