To accompany the publication of the complete text of the book in 1868, he wrote an explanatory note entitled ‘A Few Words on War and Peace’ in which he mused, “What is War and Peace?

Tchaikovsky made his adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s famous novel in 1879, but the story is set in the 1820s - much closer to the main action of War and Peace - as Tchaikovsky was well aware.

Despite this, The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, a volume in the Kansas series “Modern War Studies”, is an important read for those with an interest in Russian military history, ...

In 1968 and 1969, Colonel Charles M. Bechtel lead a 40-man infantry platoon in Vietnam. He left Vietnam not proud of America’s role there. More than 50 years later, he went back, documenting ...