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<br />Dierk!
Do not read any Soviet book on 1812! These works are not military-historical but military-patriotic, especially since 1942. Their purpose was to glorify our army and to show that Russia (and Soviet Union) had been, was remaining and would be the strongest state in the world. The Soviet authors tried to reduce the importance of the Tsar and German officers of the Russian army and to exaggerate role of Russian common people. Kutuzov was declared an untouchable idol. The Soviet books are far from having an open mind.
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That's how it looks like!!
I read it because it was recommended by someone in the "Stalwart Russian" threads as important source for his statements. [:)]
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Vladimir not rights. It is necessary to do allowance on ideology, but deny all completely is rubbish. Finally, there are ideology installations in west literature also, especially in literature of the period of the cold war. Simply no need to limited by reading is one-single book.
Tarle's prolific writing drew from his archival work in Paris, London, and the Hague. After defending his doctoral thesis in <b>1911</b>, he went on to write such books as The Continental Blockade <b>(1913)</b> and The Economic Life of the Kingdom of Italy During the Reign of Napoleon I <b>(1916). </b>His later work centered on European imperialism, Napoleon, Talleyrand, the history of diplomacy, the French bourgeoisie, and the Crimean war.
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