On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, two acclaimed authors who have written about the conflict and its ...

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4. Tolstoy’s experience of the Crimean War inspired War and Peace Tolstoy’s rich, detailed descriptions of military combat in War and Peace are enhanced by his personal experiences.

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The length of War and Peace is partly explained by the length of time Tolstoy spent planning, writing and polishing it. The earliest draft storylines found in Tolstoy’s manuscripts date back to ...

It is a whole lot harder to find fault with Leo Tolstoy, and yet the Del Monaco ... that would later flow into the vastness of War and Peace. It's the West's second great epic about force.

His deep identification with Pierre’s roiling inner angst was what inspired him to tackle the mighty challenge of making a contemporary pop opera from Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

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To celebrate their latest TV adaptation of War and Peace, the BBC has commissioned a survey of 2,000 Brits to find the most common literary fib – and, surprisingly, it’s not Leo Tolstoy’s epic.