Hello: Long time no see, expect some updates. Anyway, so I finished Volume II. It was a long haul right up to the war part with Napoleon and his entering Russia. Of particular interest was the coverage of the Battle of Borodino. Specifically the thesis that wars are not won by great men or great plans or great ideas, but rather by the mood of the men on that particular day. In short, no amount of planning is as effective as a little luck and a lot of morale. As such, the author/narrator debunks the idea that Napoleon was a military genius.
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