War and Peace Tolstoy Leo Penguin Group

This is the official tie-in edition to the BBC adaptation of War and Peace with an exclusive introduction written by Andrew Davies. Tolstoy's beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. The lives of Pierre, Prince Andrei and Natasha are changed forever as conflict rages throughout the early nineteenth century. Following the rise and fall of some of society's most influential families, this truthful and poignant epic is as relevant today as ever. This six part adaptation has been written by Bafta-winning author Andrew Davies and will be directed by Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders, The Scouting Book for Boys, Woman in Black: Angel of Death). Accompanied by a stellar cast including Paul Dano (12 Years a Slave, Prisoners, There Will Be Blood) as the idealistic Pierre, James Norton (Happy Valley, Belle, Grantchester) as the ambitious Prince Andrei and Lily James (Cinderella, Downton Abbey) as the impulsive beauty Natasha

Великолепный роман-эпопея Толстого о любви, конфликте, судьбе и человеческой жизни во всем ее несовершенстве и величии • "Война и мир" начинается на блестящей светской вечеринке в Санкт-Петербурге в 1805 году, где в разговорах преобладает перспектива войны. Террор стремительно охватывает страну, когда армия Наполеона наступает на Россию, и жизни трех молодых людей меняются навсегда. Истории донкихотствующего Пьера, циничного Андрея и порывистой Наташи переплетаются с огромным количеством персонажей, от аристократов и крестьян до солдат и самого Наполеона • Книга на английском языке • Tolstoy's magnificent epic novel of love, conflict, fate and human life in all its imperfection and grandeur • War and Peace begins at a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, where conversations are dominated by the prospect of war

In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity. So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it? • In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history of the world, from the Iron Age to the present, that investigates the causes of conflict between empires, nations and peoples and the attempts at diplomacy and cosmopolitanism. A birds-eye view of three thousand years of history, the book illuminates the forces shaping world politics from Ancient Egypt to the Han Dynasty, the Pax Romana to the rise of Islam, the Peace of Westphalia to the creation of the United Nations

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WAR&PEACE: a compelling portrait of post-post-perestroika Russia. WAR&PEACE brings together 12 stories by new generation of Russian writers. These 'state of the nation' stories imaginatively explore current Russian definitions of war and peace. WAR: controversial stories about life in the modern Russian army where the continuing war in the Caucasus has bred discontent and corruption. PEACE: stories from the frontline of contemporary life for women in Russia - from relationships and violence to aging and the generation gap

Нашумевший перевод Ричарда Певира и Ларисы Волохонской • От изысканных московских званых вечеров до головокружительных поездок на тройке по снегу, от кровавой линии фронта под Аустерлицем до смерти жены при родах - Толстой рисует широкую панораму богатой, беспорядочной, красивой и униженной человеческой жизни. Мы следим за судьбами открытого сердца, импульсивного Пьера Безухова, его меланхоличного друга князя Андрея и очаровательной Наташи Ростовой, поскольку история и вымысел сочетаются в одном из самых мудрых и захватывающих романов, когда-либо написанных. "Приятно читать... Ощущение того, что ты действительно находишься в шкуре этих людей, феноменально, блестяще передано этим переводом". (Симон Шама) • Серия "Винтажная русская классика" • Книга на английском языке

"Солдаты" - это очень личное собрание искрометных, захватывающих рассказов многих писателей о мужчинах и женщинах, которые носили оружие, отражающее всю жизнь историка-бестселлера Макса Гастингса, изучавшего войну. В нем прослеживаются перемены на протяжении веков, между героическим, трагическим и комическим, знаменитым и скромным. Почти 350 историй наглядно иллюстрируют, каково это - сражаться на войнах, жить и умереть как воин, начиная со времен Греции и Рима и заканчивая недавними конфликтами в Ираке и Афганистане • Здесь вы встретите еврейских героев Библии, римского стража ворот, королеву Боудикку, Жанну д`Арк, Кромвеля, Веллингтона, маршалов Наполеона, Улисса С. Гранта, Джорджа С. Паттона и современную SAS. Есть рассказы о великих писателях, которые служили в военной форме, включая Коббета и Толстого, Эдварда Гиббона и Зигфрида Сассуна, Марселя Пруста и Эвелин Во, Джорджа Оруэлла и Джорджа Макдональда Фрейзера

TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2016 'Magisterial...reveals how much is at stake for world order in Ukraine and Syria.' Rachel Polonsky 'As much as anything, World War I turned on the fate of Ukraine' The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917-20, followed by decades of communist rule. Dominic Lieven's powerful and original book, based on exhaustive and unprecedented study in Russian and many other foreign archives, explains why this suicidal decision was made and explores the world of the men who made it, thereby consigning their entire class to death or exile and making their country the victim of a uniquely terrible political experiment under Lenin and Stalin

Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why • His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined

Предлагаем вниманию читателей повесть Л.Н. Толстого «Крейцерова соната», увидевшую свет в 1890 году и вызвавшую большой резонанс в обществе. Перевод Бенджамина Такера дополнен комментарием

Like no other books about the World War II, Wouk's spellbinding series captures the tide of global events - the drama, the romance, the heroism and the tragedy of the war - as it imerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very centre of the war's maelstrom • Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Rememberance, stands as the crowing achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers

After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC, Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell a story that lies at the root of his fascination with war. It is a family story of war and love, and how the ghosts of the past return to shape the present • Wounds is a powerful memoir about Irish people who found themselves caught up in the revolution that followed the 1916 Rising, and in the pitiless violence of civil war in north Kerry after the British left in 1922 • It is the story of Keane’s grandmother Hannah Purtill, her brother Mick and his friend Con Brosnan, and how they and their neighbours took up guns to fight the British Empire and create an independent Ireland. And it is the story of another Irishman, Tobias O’Sullivan, who fought against them as a policeman because he believed it was his duty to uphold the law of his country