To accompany the publication of the complete text of the book in 1868, he wrote an explanatory note entitled ‘A Few Words on War and Peace’ in which he mused, “What is War and Peace?

Despite this, The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, a volume in the Kansas series “Modern War Studies”, is an important read for those with an interest in Russian military history, ...

His first choice is by a composer who - like the book's main character Pierre ... Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. As in War and Peace, the Russian defeat of Napoleon in 1812 at the ...