In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five
decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional
representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels
in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much
disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and
military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for
the soldiers of today. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the
French invasion of Russia and acknowledge the importance of
Tolstoy's novel for our historical memory of its central events,
Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin have assembled a distinguished
group of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds literary
criticism, history, social science, and philosophy to provide fresh
readings of the novel.
The essays in Tolstoy On War focus primarily on the novel s
depictions of war and history, and the range of responses suggests
that these remain inexhaustible topics of debate. The result is a
volume that opens fruitful new avenues of understanding War and
Peace while providing a range of perspectives and interpretations
without parallel in the vast literature on the novel.
Contributors: Alan Forrest, University of York; Andreas
Herberg-Rothe, University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany;
Dominic Lieven, Trinity College, Cambridge University; Jeff Love,
Clemson University; Alexander M. Martin, University of Notre Dame;
Rick McPeak, United States Military Academy at West Point; Gary
Saul Morson, Northwestern University;Donna Tussing Orwin,
University of Toronto; Elizabeth D. Samet, United States Military
Academy at West Point; Dan Ungurianu, Vassar College; David A.
Welch, Balsillie School of International Affairs and University of
Waterloo"
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