Week 27 Recap: Alpatych and Smolensk
What most interested me in this week’s readings were Chapters 4 and 5. They were some of the longest chapters we’ve encountered thus far, which says something in and of itself: why did Tolstoy devote more space to these chapters — to the minor character of Alpatych and the retreat from Smolensk — tha…
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