TY  - BOOK
AU  - McPeak,Rickie Allen
AU  - Orwin,Donna Tussing
TI  - Tolstoy on war: narrative art and historical truth in "War and peace" 
SN  - 9780801465895
AV  - PG3365 .T657 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Tolstoy, Leo,
KW  - History in literature
KW  - War in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Tolstoy on war, Russia, and empire; Dominic Lieven --; The use of historical sources in War and peace; Dan Ungurianu --; Moscow in 1812 : myths and realities; Alexander M. Martin --; The French at war : representations of the enemy in War and peace; Alan Forrest --; Symposium of quotations : wit and other short genres in War and peace; Gary Saul Morson --; The great man in War and peace; Jeff Love --; War and peace from the military point of view; Donna Tussing Orwin --; Tolstoy and Clausewitz : the duel as microcosm of war; Rick McPeak --; The awful poetry of war : Tolstoy's Borodino; Donna Tussing Orwin --; Tolstoy and Clausewitz : the dialectics of war; Andreas Herberg-Rothe --; The disobediences of War and peace; Elizabeth D. Samet --; Tolstoy the international relations theorist; David A. Welch --; War and peace at West Point; Rick McPeak; 2; b
N2  - 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 --
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