The classic examination of the individual caught in the relentless march of human history. Tolstoy sets universal themes – love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age – against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. One of the top fiction titles in AudioFile Magazine's list of the Best Audiobooks of 2007. "A special pleasure [from] an excellent narrator... He gives you a fresh and consistently insightful interpretation."—AudioFile