Bondarchuk's War and Peace

Sergei Bondarchuk''s War and Peace, one of the world''s greatest film epics, originated as a consequence of the Cold War. Conceived as a response to King Vidor''s War and Peace, Bondarchuk''s surpassed that film in every way, giving the USSR one small victory in the cultural Cold War for hearts and minds. This book, taking up Bondarchuk''s masterpiece as a Cold War film, an epic, a literary adap...