Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Demoralization precedes defeat

The author relates, in vivid detail, how an unconventional strategy can first demoralize then bring a conventional and technologically superior force to complete and humiliating defeat. The description of Napoleon's retreat is a heart-wrenching first-person account. I literally could not put it down and was drawn into the story as if hearing the account for the first time. Every page lured me to the end. And it still lures me back to read again and again. This is the definitive work on Napoleon's doomed campaign.