This four-part 1960s adaptation surpassed all expectations and became one of the most influential war films ever made.

War and Peace offers an excellent picture of the 1805 appeasement group (analogous to the men of Munich) in St. Petersburg. ... For it is true that Napoleon’s war was a continental one.

War and Peace understands that this is true for everyone. Napoleon is a mythic figure, but also just some guy. He eats and sleeps and shits like everyone else, ...

Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 historical novel of Napoleon v. Russia, “War and Peace,” which might more accurately be titled “War and Peace and War and Peace ...

The story he tells — Russia’s gargantuan struggle with Napoleon — will be known to most people through Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” and it takes a brave man to challenge the great novelist.

The War Over War and Peace Two new translations of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace will be published in the United States this fall, one claiming By Leon Neyfakh • 08/23/07 12:11pm ...

Dominic Lieven's account of the defeat of Napoleon in Russia is meant to correct the popular myths in order to recover a a truth that has for many decades remained obscured by myth, neglect and ...

War and Peace finale recap: Part 4. ... Kutuzov plays a long game. Napoleon’s spirit won’t be fully broken until winter hits; for now, he’s free to take Moscow.

In “War and Peace,” like the title says, you get equal measures of each. It’s a production challenge. My first encounter with the book was actually through an adaptation.

The edits made for a clumsily uneven work of vestigial intimacy and blunt, bombastic flag-waving. Yet when “War and Peace,” which premiered in 1946, is staged — always an event because of ...