You Met Your Father At Vyazma

Major Etienne Bonnaire, a principled, veteran Officer of Napoleon's Grand Army, is forced out of retirement. But in doing so, demotes his career rival, Captain Fabrice Delacroix, who will stop at nothing to get command of the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry back. Etienne's pregnant wife, Maria and Delacroix share a dark secret, with which he intends to undo Bonnaire's plans. Napoleon invades Russia, and in the heat of the summer of 1812, Etienne meets a mysterious Russian woman, Katya. In the disaster of the retreat from Moscow, she will ultimately decide their fate, and the fate of their descendants down the centuries.