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52: War and Peace

Second Decade by Kerkoporta LLC

Feb 18, 202163:57Society & Culture

This is a crossover episode with the Green Screen podcast. Leo Tolstoy’s epic 1869 novel War & Peace is undeniably one of the great classics of world literature. Although it covers a considerable time period, its climact...

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