Afterword: Achilles and the tortoise: the tortoise’s view of late colonialism and decolonization
As the battle of Borodino draws to its wearied and bloody end, in volume three ofWar and peace, Leo Tolstoy reflects on a day that, while militarily inconclusive, ultimately led to the defeat of Napoleonic France, ‘a country on which, at Borodino, for the very first time, the hand of an opponent str...
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