War And Peace

17. The abduction begins but is frustrated by a footman.

18. Marya Dimitrievna is furious with Natasha. Count Ilya is not told.

19. Pierre sees Natasha and confirms that Anatole is already married.

20. Pierre sees Anatole, and vents his fury on him. Anatole leaves town.

21. Natasha takes poison. Andrey is now back. Pierre goes to see him.

22. Pierre assures Natasha of his devotion. The great comet of 1812.

VOLUME III

Part I (May—July 1812)

1. For all their illusion of self-will ‘great leaders’ are directed by history.

2. Napoleon crosses the Niemen. Polish uhlans are drowned in the Viliya.

3. Alexander at Vilna. Boris eavesdrops. Alexander writes to Napoleon.

4. Balashev is sent to Napoleon, and meets Murat, ‘King of Naples’.

5. Balashev, treated badly by Davout, is finally brought to Napoleon.

6. Balashev’s meeting with Napoleon.

7. Balashev dines with Napoleon.

8. Kutuzov sends Andrey to Barclay’s army. He calls in at Bald Hills.

9. Andrey at Drïssa. His ideas on the three armies and eight parties.

10. Andrey meets Pfuel, a conceited theorist and military ‘expert’.

11. An informal council-of-war. Pfuel’s ludicrous dogmatism.

12. Nikolay writes to Sonya. He and Ilyin get caught in a storm.

13. Marya Genrikhovna. The officers and the doctor.

14. Nikolay controls his fear as he goes into action at Ostrovna.

15. Nikolay, with his huntsman’s eye, excels in battle.

16. Natasha’s illness. The absurd and expensive ministrations of doctors.

17. Natasha and Pierre. She takes Communion. A slight improvement.

18. At Mass Natasha hears the special prayer for victory.

19. Pierre, haunted by the number 666, sees that he must destroy Napoleon.

20. Petya is keen on the army. Pierre decides to stop visiting Natasha.

21. Petya is crushed at the Kremlin, but overwhelmed by seeing the Emperor.

22. Assembly of nobility, including Pierre, and merchants at Sloboda palace.

23. The Emperor speaks. Pierre offers to fund a thousand men.

Part II (August 1812)

1. The events of 1812, despite the ‘planning’, were unforeseen and fortuitous.

2. Prince Bolkonsky’s mind is going. Julie writes to Marya

3. Alpatych is sent to Smolensk.

4. Smolensk is under fire. Alpatych meets Andrey, who tells them to leave.

5. Prince Andrey visits Bald Hills. The bathing soldiers – cannon-fodder.

6. Matter v. form. Anna Pavlovna’s and Hélène’s competing salons.

7. Napoleon orders the advance on Moscow. An encounter with Lavrushka.

8. Prince Bolkonsky has a stroke, and then dies, nursed by Princess Marya.

9. The truculent peasantry. Alpatych speaks to Dron.

10. Princess Marya speaks to Dron.

11. She addresses the suspicious peasants, who refuse to leave Bogucharovo.

12. Princess Marya recalls her father’s death.

13. Nikolay and Ilyin arrive at Bogucharovo, willing to help Marya.

14. Nikolay brings the peasants into line. Marya falls in love with him.

15. Andrey meets Denisov, who wants to develop guerrilla resistance.

16. Andrey trusts Kutuzov and his motto: ‘Patience and Time’.

17. Moscow. Rostopchin’s broadsheets. Pierre hears of Marya’s arrival.

18. A public flogging. Pierre leaves for the front.

19. Borodino – a senseless struggle wrongly interpreted by historians.

20. Pierre arrives in the theatre of war and seeks out the army’s position.

21. The Icon of Smolensk is deeply revered by the soldiers and Kutuzov.

22. Kutuzov notices Pierre. Dolokhov wants Pierre to be reconciled.

23. Bennigsen explains the army position; it is all beyond Pierre.

24. Andrey reflects on life and death. Pierre visits him.

25. The spirit of the army. What is war? Andrey thinks of Natasha.

26. De Beausset brings Napoleon his son’s portrait. Napoleon’s proclamation.

27. Napoleon’s dispositions, and how they failed to materialize.

28. Napoleon’s cold. The reasons behind the battle.

29. Napoleon talks to De Beausset and Rapp. The game begins.

30. Pierre watches the battlefield from a mound at Gorki.

31. Pierre sees violent action in and around the Rayevsky redoubt.

32. The redoubt is taken and retaken. Pierre tackles a French officer.

33. The battle proceeds in its own way despite the many orders issued.

34. Expected successes are not achieved. Massive, useless slaughter.

35. Kutuzov. An order to renew the attack tomorrow. The spirit of the army.

36. Andrey is hit by a bursting shell. The dressing-station.

37. Andrey undergoes an operation on his thigh. Anatole’s leg is amputated.

38. Napoleon’s dark mood, though he believes few Frenchmen fell in Russia.

39. Moral victory for the Russians, but everyone doubts the value of it all.

Part III (September 1812)

1. Continuity of motion. Achilles and the tortoise. Image of the locomotive.

2. The campaign before Borodino. Kutuzov’s subsequent movements.

3. Kutuzov and his generals. To defend or not to defend Moscow?

4. The war council at Fili. With a heavy heart Kutuzov opts for retreat.

5. The abandonment of Moscow. Rostopchin’s inconsistent behaviour.

6. In Petersburg Hélène converts to Catholicism and plans remarriage.