The Duellists with Alexander Mikaberidze

We're going back to 1977 and Ridley Scott's feature film directorial debut, The Duellists. 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.

Want to learn more about the Napoleonic era? Get one (or more) of Alexander's great books:

• The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9780199951062
• The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape  https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781844159208
• The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Against Kutuzov  https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781848844049
• Russian Eyewitnesses of the Campaign of 1807  https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781848327627
• The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: 1792-1815 https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781932714029
• Find more of Alexander's books at https://bookshop.org/contributors/alexander-mikaberidze

 

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