Poland, 1807: As the Grand Armee continues its march ever eastwards, Napoleon is facing his most difficult challenge to date . . .
Sergeant Alain Lausard and his loyal dragoons have never known a campaign like it. Anything but fresh from their victory over Frederick's Prussian forces, Napoleon is ordering his men onwards into Poland, and headfirst into battle with General Bennigsen and his Russian troops. And the Tsar is not the only enemy that must be overcome: country and climate are conspiring to make conditions impossible.
Napoleon is convinced that victory is all that is required to dispel thoughts of hunger, discomfort and bad weather. But even the sharpest fighting men have limits beyond which they cannot be pushed. At Eylau, with the weather and the Russians closing in, it seems that not even Bonaparte's tactical brilliance will be enough to save Lausard and his men from a deadly debacle . .
