Fouche’s Comments (group member since Feb 14, 2012)

Fouche’s comments from the KC /int/ Book Club group.

Admiral Cockroach wrote: "I'm reading The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe And The Birth Of Modern Warfare. Think of it as a really long essay on Revolutionary France and the politics around it.

It's in t..."

War and Peace is Tolstoy trying to cleanse the Russian soul for failing so hard since Peter and then Catherine. He is one of the first modern proponents of historicism, and likes to pretend what Napoleon accomplished could have been done by any other general out of revolutionary France, such as Hoche or Bernadotte. He romanticizes both the Russian serfs and the gentry, which is hypocritical. He mentions nothing of the horrors of partisan warfare, and is generally a dick. I thought the book would be wonderful when I read it, and ended up quite disappointed. I will check out the total war book, as I've seen it mentioned before.