War and Peace

Brigadier Gerard Returns!

Horace Vernet, "The Battle of Friedland, June 14,1807"

I have a Brigadier Gerard short story in an upcoming Sir Arthur Conan Doyle anthology, and the story teams Doyle’s Napoleonic hero with Nikolai Rostov from Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace. Read on for more information on the story and how to pre-order the collection.

I have finished War and Peace. The BBC audio drama, that is, not the novel. Which I have read; I read it in high school a long time ago. It was a bit flat. No, more than a bit. It was a lot flat. A decade after Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the Rostov family andContinue reading “War and Peace”