title: Tuscan Roots: A tangle of love and war in the Italian Apennines
author:  Angela Petch 
description: Angela Petch is a prize-winning author who lives six months of the year in Tuscany and the remaining half year in Sussex, England. She lived in Rome for six formative years, where her passion for Italy was born. "Tuscan Roots" is her first novel and a sequel was published in April 2017: "Now and Then in Tuscany". Angela Petch also writes short stories that appear in national magazines in Great Britain. Both books are written in English but have Italian content.
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  # War and Peace, v14
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Leo Tolstoy
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  BOOK ONE: 1805
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XV
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVIII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIX
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XX
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXI
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXIII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXIV
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXV
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXVI
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXVII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXVIII
  
  
  ## BOOK ONE: 1805
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of
  
  
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