War and Peace: War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, including the Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Borodino, Fire of Moscow, and Napoleon’s retreat etc., as seen through the eyes of four Russian aristocratic families, Andrei, Pierre and Natasha. Every of the 559 characters have his or her personality, love, joy, pain and hatred. It is a grander portray of the times. This vast work has the spirit of an epic that only Homer can match.