Westerners still mostly stress their own national contributions to victory-hence the cult of Wellington and Waterloo-and Russians still dwell mostly on the military operations of the brief campaign of 1812.
As we approach the bicentennial of the climax of those wars, many scholars continue to work within old conceptual frameworks. In his recent book Russia Against Napoleon, Dominic Lieven points out a remarkable fact: few historians of the Napoleonic Wars seem to care that Russia did more than anyone to overthrow Napoleon.
