Not So Great Men
It was the opinion of Leo Tolstoy that even Napoleon was never master of his own destiny.
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The author of the monumental ‘War and Peace’, a novel about Napoleon’s anti-Russian campaign, was also a stern but non-violent critic of oppressive Government.
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