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Sevastopol Sketches

Author
Leo Tolstoy
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
4 hours
ISBN
9781802568592
Published
4 September 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Crimean War
  • heroism
  • despair
  • camaraderie
  • morality
  • human spirit
  • courage
  • fear
  • resilience
  • war narrative

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Description

Tolstoy's Crimean War sketches place you inside besieged Sevastopol among soldiers facing courage, fear, camaraderie, and the moral cost of battle. Firsthand realism that treats war as lived truth, not parade. Spoken as when the walls still ask what heroism costs once the smoke clears.

Author

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born to a titled family at Yasnaya Polyana, served in the Crimean War, and wrote the two novels that made Russian fiction a world event: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The first holds a nation at war and at home; the second holds a marriage until it breaks. Later he turned from the worldly novel toward essays and moral tales, arguing with church, property, and his own fame. One hundred and six titles here.

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