About the Author

DR ALEXANDER MIKABERIDZE is Hubert D. Humphreys Professor of History at Louisiana State University-Shreveport (USA). He has taught European history at Mississippi State and Florida State universities and lectured on the Napoleonic Wars for the US Naval War College. He has published many articles on the subject and his books include The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Against Kutuzov, The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape and Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the Campaign of 1812.