Leo Tolstoy 
War and Peace 
With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

War and Peace is considered one of the worlds greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina, as Tolstoys finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleons invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.