Naxos Audiobooks Colonel Chabert (EN)
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In the brutal Prussian winter of 1807, Emperor Napole´on Bonaparte’s Grande Arme´e suffered massive losses to the Russians in the Battle of Eylau. Many thousands died. Young Colonel Chabert falls heroically, his actions having turned the tide of the battle, but he is buried anonymously on the battlefield in a mass grave.
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