General Discussions

<p>We're going back to 1977 and Ridley Scott's feature film directorial debut, <em>The Duellists. </em>The movie tells the tale of two soldiers in Napoleon's army who duel with each other for over a decade. Historian and professor at Louisiana State University, Alexander Mikaberidze, returns to help us separate fact from fiction in the movie.</p><p>Want to learn more about the Napoleonic era? Get one (or more) of Alexander's great books:</p> <ul> <li> <em>The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History</em> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9780199951062">https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9780199951062</a> </li> <li> <em>The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape</em> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781844159208">https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781844159208</a> </li> <li> <em>The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Against Kutuzov</em> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781848844049">https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781848844049</a> </li> <li> <em>Russian Eyewitnesses of the Campaign of 1807</em> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781848327627">https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781848327627</a> </li> <li> <em>The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: 1792-1815</em> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781932714029">https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781932714029</a> </li> <li>Find more of Alexander's books at <a href="https://bookshop.org/contributors/alexander-mikaberidze">https://bookshop.org/contributors/alexander-mikaberidze</a> </li> </ul><p>Did you enjoy this episode?</p><p>You can...</p>