War And Peace Part 1 Of 4 Author:Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy Part One Of Four Parts Written around the time of our own civil war, WAR AND PEACE concerns another violent conflict: the invasion of Russia by Napoleon in 1812. While Tolstoy himself was born 16 years later, he grew up in a Russia that was still recovering from Napoleon's carnage and his outlook was certainly influenced by the men he met a... more »nd the stories he heard. One finishes WAR AND PEACE in a state of exhilaration, for we have come to know and care deeply about the lives, loves and fates of the teeming personalities who populate Tolstoy's masterpiece, and, henceforth, will walk with us on our journeys of imagination.« less