French invasion of Russia part of the government. During the Cold War, many Western historians were inclined to see Russia as "the enemy", and there was a tendency to downplay and dismiss Russia's contributions to the defeat of Napoleon. As such, Napoleon's claim that the Russians did not defeat him and he was just the victim of fate in 1812 was very appealing to many Western historians. Russian historians tended to focus on the French invasion of Russia in 1812 and ignore the campaigns in 1813–1814 fought in Germany and France because a campaign fought on Russian soil was regarded as more important than
The Invasion of Canada The Invasion of Canada The Invasion of Canada: 1812–1813 is a 1980 book by Pierre Berton. The book is an account of the first year of the War of 1812 and the events leading up to it. Berton wrote that this history is neither military nor political. "This is, rather, a "social" history of the war, the first to be written by a Canadian." Details of the book were drawn from memoirs and diaries of common soldiers and commanding officers, as well as official military correspondence. The story of the war, to its conclusion, was continued in the follow-up book,