Russia in War and Peace by Palmer, Alan - 1972

New York: Macmillan, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. New York: Macmillan, 1972. Stated First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Printing in unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue-black cloth boards with gold decoration on cover, gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers (very small previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper). Lavishly illustrated in black and white and color, maps. 224 pages with index. Clean dust jacket designed by Rodney Josey is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped (jacket illustration is "The Retreat from Moscow" by Vereshchagin. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author Alan Palmer places the events of "War and Peace" in their historical context, providing an introductory survey to the tumultuous and changing Russia that formed the background for the novel. His brilliant, sweeping study of the society and life of the Alexandrine Age emphasizes the facets that Tolstoy developed--the importance of the peasantry, the influence of French culture, the religiosity of the simple Russian mind, the cruel hardships of the war and its aftermath..