副題「The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace」。
副題のみならず、この書全体が、トルストイの『戦争と平和』を意識して著されている。
『The Economist』の書評を見て買って読んだのだが、このレビュー以上に付け加えることなし。
The central point made by Mr Lieven’s witty and impeccably scholarly book is that Russia owed its victory not to the courage of its national spirit or to the coldness of the 1812 winter, as some French sources have argued, but to its military excellence, superior cavalry, the high standards of Russia’s diplomatic and intelligence services and the quality of its European elite. Thanks to the intelligence he obtained, Alexander was able to outwit Napoleon, anticipating his invasion. （『The Economist』Apr 15th 2010 「How Russia really won」）
Russia’s subsequent two-year-long campaign in the heart of Europe, which included the battle of Leipzig and ended in Paris, was of little interest to Tolstoy whose concern was national consciousness not imperial glory. （同）
それにしても何をだらだらと618頁も。それからもうすこし丁寧に注を付けてくれ。一段落に一つではちょっと少ない。著者の主張すべてについての裏取りができかねる。これでは“物語”を否定するに別の“物語”を持ってくるに等しい。
（Viking, USA, Apr. 2010）
副題のみならず、この書全体が、トルストイの『戦争と平和』を意識して著されている。
『The Economist』の書評を見て買って読んだのだが、このレビュー以上に付け加えることなし。
The central point made by Mr Lieven’s witty and impeccably scholarly book is that Russia owed its victory not to the courage of its national spirit or to the coldness of the 1812 winter, as some French sources have argued, but to its military excellence, superior cavalry, the high standards of Russia’s diplomatic and intelligence services and the quality of its European elite. Thanks to the intelligence he obtained, Alexander was able to outwit Napoleon, anticipating his invasion. （『The Economist』Apr 15th 2010 「How Russia really won」）
Russia’s subsequent two-year-long campaign in the heart of Europe, which included the battle of Leipzig and ended in Paris, was of little interest to Tolstoy whose concern was national consciousness not imperial glory. （同）
それにしても何をだらだらと618頁も。それからもうすこし丁寧に注を付けてくれ。一段落に一つではちょっと少ない。著者の主張すべてについての裏取りができかねる。これでは“物語”を否定するに別の“物語”を持ってくるに等しい。
（Viking, USA, Apr. 2010）