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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Tolstoy, Leo
Tolstoy, Leo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
War And Peace: Book Thirteen
Chapter One:
Tolstoy continues to analize the causes of historical events, using as
his subject the retreat and flanking movement of Kutuzov's army, which
eventually put the Russians in a position to destroy the French army of Murat,
Napoleon's commander. Tolstoy makes again his central point that circumstances
and not the particular will of any one man or group of men brought the event
about. The two armies, during the autumn months, do not meet; the French,
"wounded" at Borodino, occupy Moscow and pillage it; the army of ...
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