Finished War and Peace. It was fascinating and entertaining, perhaps in the way that a well-made documentary is.

Tolstoy seems to take great issue with the way historians of his day had portrayed Napoleon, or war in general. He says that they give the people in power credit for certain events occurring, when one’s response to them (the leader and the troops) are just the natural flow of events that should obviously lead one to another. He also went on at length about how guerilla warfare screws up the “bigger army = more success in battle” equation, and tries to explain some formulaic method of calculating out the variables guerilla tactics creates.

I did not read the epilogues, as my understanding is they don’t add to the story.