Week 32 Recap: "Fortune is a liberal mistress"
To get the scope of what really happened at Borodino and the context of Napoleon’s moral defeat, I was happy to spend some time in Andrew Roberts’ Napoleon: A Life. Roberts has a pretty favorable attitude towards the French general, which actually makes it well worth reading as a complement to War and Peace. You get both sides of that opinionated coin; …
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