La battaglia

Synopsis of La battaglia

«La battaglia» is the historical novel by Patrick Rambaud, published by Bompiani in paperback (224 pages, in Italian).

Rambaud recreates the Battle of Essling (1809), at the gates of Vienna, with Napoleon and Marshals Lannes and Masséna. The novel takes up the project Balzac never got to write: telling the horror and beauty of two days of combat that left forty thousand dead, following the French army across the Danube.

First installment of the «Fin d’Empire» series. Winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française in 1997. Italian translation by E. Volterrani; original «La Bataille» (1997).

For readers of historical fiction and Napoleonic war narrative, with critical and literary recognition.