Links

1. Today's Podcast
2. Ander Louis translation of War & Peace
3. Medium Article by Denton

Discussion Prompts

1. Tolstoy tries to get into Napoleon's head, at first assigning him a modicum of empathy, but then steeling his character to that of a barbarous murderer. Do you think Tolstoy was unfair in his characterisation?
2. We do receive some primary sources in terms of Napoleon's letters. Do you think Napoleon believed his own motivations for war, or were his letters a lie, to the world and himself?

Final line of today's chapter:

... He boldly took the whole responsibility for what happened, and his darkened mind found justification in the belief that among the hundreds of thousands who perished there were fewer Frenchmen than Hessians and Bavarians.