TY - BOOK AU - Tolstoy,Leo TI - War and peace SN - 0140444173 AV - PR6055 .D65T65 1978 U1 - 822.914 PY - 1978/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 KW - Campaigns KW - Russia KW - Fiction KW - History KW - Alexander I, 1801-1825 N1 - Language and Literature N2 - War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and valor through their impact on the lives of three principal characters: the courageous Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov, and the nobly born beauty Natasha Rostov ER -