War and Peace - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

In Russia''s struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture'', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation''. Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy''s important essay `Some Words about War and Peace''.