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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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Section	Section Description	Page Number
Acknowledgments	p. vii
Note to the Reader	p. ix
Introduction   Donna Tussing Orwin	p. 1
1	Tolstoy on War, Russia, and Empire   Dominic Lieven	p. 12
2	The Use of Historical Sources in War and Peace   Dan Ungurianu	p. 26
3	Moscow in 1812: Myths and Realities   Alexander M. Martin	p. 42
4	The French at War: Representations of the Enemy in War and Peace   Alan Forrest	p. 59
5	Symposium of Quotations: Wit and Other Short Genres in War and Peace   Gary Saul Morson	p. 74
6	The Great Man in War and Peace   Jeff Love	p. 85
7	War and Peace from the Military Point of View   Donna Tussing Orwin	p. 98
8	Tolstoy and Clausewitz: The Duel as a Microcosm of War   Rick McPeak	p. 111
9	The Awful Poetry of War: Tolstoy''s Boroclino   Donna Tussing Orwin	p. 123
10	Tolstoy and Clausewitz: The Dialectics of War   Andreas Herberg-Rothe	p. 140
11	The Disobediences of War and Peace   Elizabeth D. Samet	p. 160
12	Tolstoy the International Relations Theorist   David A. Welch	p. 175
War and Peace at West Point   Rick McPeak	p. 190
Notes	p. 195
Works Cited	p. 221
List of Contributors	p. 237
Index	p. 239