Download or read book War and Peace Vol 2 of 3 Classic Reprint written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 2 of 3 In spite of the indifference which Prince Andrew had chosen to assume before Peter, he watched the course of events from day to day with keen interest, and read a great quantity of books and he noted, with surprise, that his father's visitors fresh from St. Petersburg, from the very headquarters of action, who might therefore be supposed to know what was doing in domestic and foreign politics, were often far less well informed than he was, living secluded in the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Lev N. Tolstóy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 2 O God, I wonder whether everything is all right, thought Rostov, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and rushing along the vestibule and the familiar warped staircase. The same old door-handle, the spots on which had been the cause of so much anger in the count ess, submitted to the same weak pressure. A tallow candle was burning in the antechamber. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace Vol 3 of 4 Classic Reprint written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 3 of 4 Toward the end of the year 1811, a tremendous armament and concentration of forces took place in Western Europe; and in 1812, these forces - millions of men, counting those who were concerned in the transport and victualling of the armies were moved from west to east toward the borders of Russia, where the Russian forces were drawn up just as they had been the year before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace Vol 6 Classic Reprint written by Lyof N. Tolstoï and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 6 The battle of Borodino, with the successive occupation of Moscow and the flight of the French army without further battles, is one of the most instructive events of history. All historians agree that the external activity of states and peoples, in their mutual collisions, is expressed by war; that immediately after great or petty military successes the political power of states and nations is increased or diminished. Strange as it seems in reading history to find that such and such a king or emperor, on quarreling with other emperors or kings, gets his troops together, attacks the enemy's army, wins the victory, kills three thousand, five thousand, ten thousand men, and in consequence of this vanquishes a whole state and a whole population of millions of men; hard as it is to understand why the defeat of an army - the loss of a hundredth part of all a nation's forces - should compel the submission of the entire nation, - yet all the facts of history, as far as it is known to us, confirm the justice of the assertion that the greater or less success of the army of any nation at war with another is the cause, or at least the essential indication, of the increase or decrease of the power of those nations. When an army has won a victory, instantly the "rights" of the victorious nation are increased to the detriment of the vanquished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace Vol 3 of 3 written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel But whenever there have been wars, there have been great military leaders; whenever there have been revolutions in states, there have been great men, ' says history. Whenever there have been great military leaders there have, indeed, been wars, ' replies the human reason; but that does not prove that the generals were the cause of the wars, and that the factors leading to warfare can he found in the personal activity of one man.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by Lev N. Tolstóy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 3 The actions of Napoleon and Alexander, on whose words it seemed to depend whether the event was to take place or not, were as little arbitrary as the action of any soldier who went into the campaign by lot or by recruit ment. It could not have been otherwise because, in order that the will of Napoleon and Alexander (of those people on whom the event seemed to have depended) should be fulfilled, there was needed the coincidence Of an endless number Of circumstances, without one of which the event could not have occurred. It was necessary for millions of people, in the hands of whom was the real power, for the soldiers who fired, and who transported the provisions and the guns, to agree to do the will of a few weak individuals, and to be brought to do this by an endless number of complicated, complex causes. Fatalism in history is necessary for the explanation of unreasonable events, that is, of such as we do not compre hend the reason. The more reasonably we attempt to explain these phenomena in history, the more unreason able and unintelligible they become to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace Vol 1 of 2 written by Leon Tolstoi and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 1 of 2: A Historical Novel The little princess made her way round the table with short tripping steps; then, shaking out the folds of her dress, she sank into the sofa close to the samovar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace written by Count Leon Tolstoi and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace: A Historical Novel When Russia, already half-conquered, saw the inhabitants of Moscow flying to distant provinces, while the levies of militia went on without cessation, we - who did not live then - we fancy that every individual, from the greatest to the least, can have had but one idea: that, namely, of sacrificing everything to save the country or to perish with it. The records of the time indeed are full of traits of devotion and love, of despair and anguish, but the reality was far from what we fancy it. The historic interest of those terrible years diverts our attention from the minor personal interests which, by their more immediate pressure, blinded contemporary witnesses to the importance of all that was going on around them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace Vol 2 of 2 written by Leon Tolstoi and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 2 of 2: A Historical Novel; The Invasion, 1807 1812 No doubt if Napoleon had not taken offence at the concessions required of him, if England had not intrigued with the dispossessed duke, if the Czar had not been deeply aggrieved, if the government of Russia had not been a despotic monarchy, if the various causes which led up to the French Revolution, the consulate and the empire had never existed - there would have been no war. But, at the same time, if only one of this chain of circumstances had been missing, the sequel would not have followed. Thus it was the sum total of them all-and no one event by itself which entailed the fatal consequences. It happened because it was bound to happen; and so it came to pass that some millions of men, ignoring all common sense and human feeling, started to march eastwards to slaughter their fellow-creatures, just as, some centuries before, unnumbered swarms had rushed down on the west, killing all on their way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace Vol 2 of 2 written by Léon Tolstoï and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 2 of 2: A Historical Novel; Before Tilsit, 1805 1807 Prince basil never laid any plans beforehand; still less did he ever plot evil with a View to his own advantage. He was simply a man of the world who had been successful, and to whom success had become a matter of habit. He acted according to circumstances and to his position towards others, and he reconciled this mode of proceeding with the various schemes which were his chief interest in life but which he never examined with conscientious narrowness. He had always a dozen in hand: some never - got beyond the first stage, some worked out successfully, some again went overboard. He never for instance said to himself: So and so is in power I must try to win his confidence and lik ing, and so gain this or that pecuniary advantage, or. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by Lyof N. Tolstoï and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 5 In searching for the laws of historical movements precisely the same things must be observed. The prog ress of humanity, arising from an infinite collection of human wills, is continuous. The apprehension of the laws of this onward march is the aim of history. But in order to discover the laws of continuous motion in the sum of all the volitions of men, human reason assumes arbitrary and separate units. History first studies an arbitrary series of uninterrupted events, and contemplates it separate from the others, albeit there is and can be no beginning of an event, but every event is the direct outgrowth of its predecessor. Secondly, history studies the deeds of a single man, a tsar, a colonel, as representing the sum of men's voli tions, when in reality the sum of men's volitions is never expressed in the activities of any one historical personage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 1 Her notes of invitation, distributed that morning by a footman in red, had been written alike to all: Count (or Prince), if you have nothing better to do, and if the prospect of an evening with a poor invalid is not too frightful, I shall be very glad to see you to-night at my house between seven and ten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book War and Peace written by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, originally published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69. This panoramic study of early 19th-century Russian society, noted for its mastery of realistic detail and variety of psychological analysis, is generally regarded as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace is primarily concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families--particularly the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Rostovs--the members of which are portrayed against a vivid background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon (1805-14). The theme of war, however, is subordinate to the story of family existence, which involves Tolstoy's optimistic belief in the life-asserting pattern of human existence. The novel also sets forth a theory of history, concluding that there is a minimum of free choice; all is ruled by an inexorable historical determinism. Includes unique illustrations.
Download or read book Three Years War for Peace Classic Reprint written by Basil Mathews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Three Years War for Peace With aching hands and bleeding feet We toil and dig, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day and wish 'twere done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Friend of Peace Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Philo Pacificus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Friend of Peace, Vol. 2 It has been reported of some ancient barbarians, that they were in the habit of preserving young females taken in war, for the purpose of raising children by them, to fat and butcher for food.' Let this horrible practise be compared with the christian practice of raising and training sons to be employed as man-butchers and then say which of the two practices is the'most inhuman and detestable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book One Against the World Or Reuben s War Vol 2 of 3 written by John Saunders and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from One Against the World; Or Reuben's War, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Was it possible she had come merely to say that The servant always now came to answer his hell, or to supply his daily wants. Had her mother sent her, or been willing to let her come? All these questions ran rapidly through Reuben's mind, but he was quite unable to answer them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of the World War Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Frank H. Simonds and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the World War, Vol. 2 I. Warnings from the balkans. Turkey needs German help Bulgaria and Greece must be impressed with the might of Germany. II. Military aspects. Importance Of crushing Serbia. The great Balkan enterprise both practicable and politic - The German programme. III. The czar ferdinand. Rumania remains neu tral - Ferdinand Of Bulgaria, a creature Of Germany - Foolish Allied attempts to win over Bulgaria. IV. Constantine and venize los. Their mutual antagonism - The Blindness Of Allied states manship - Greeks stand by their king - Their Old rival, Italy, joins the Allies - Ferdinand and Constantine understand each other Decline Of Allied prestige in the Balkans. V. The final folly. Allies refuse to see Serbia's danger - She is abandoned - What might. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
