On the sixth of November the sky became terrible ... The army marched along wrapped in a cold mist. ... While the men were struggling to make headway against the icy, cutting blast, the snow driven by the wind was piling up and filling the
hollows along the way. Their smooth surfaces hid unsuspected depths which opened up treacherously under our feet. Th

men were swallowed up, and the weak... were buried forever.
-Philippe-Paul de Ségur, Napoleon's Russian Campaign

“How was the experience of Napoleon's advance on Moscow similar to that of German troops in
World War II?”