War and Peace, Book 14: 1812
Author: first_name: Leo
last_name: Tolstoy
Language: English
Year: 1922

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. <br /><br />

War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up