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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Battlefields
Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life (New York: Penguin Books, 2014), p. xxiii:
A military historian who doesn't visit battlefields is akin to a detective who
doesn't bother to visit the scene of the crime.