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They talk about the main takeaways from the summit and different perspectives on Ukraine’s prospective membership.

This week on War & Peace, Olga Oliker and Elissa Jobson are joined by Lithuanian parliamentarian Dovilė Šakalienė to take stock of the summit, the shifting security situation in the Baltics and the future of NATO. But those who hoped Ukraine would be invited to join left disappointed. The war in Ukraine was unsurprisingly the focal point of the summit, with NATO members committing to continued support for Kyiv and revamped deterrence in Europe as a whole and the Baltics in particular. At the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the decision to hold the meeting in one of NATO’s newer members and a country claimed by the Soviet Union for decades was seen as a sign of commitment to the alliance's eastern flank. The recording of book twelve can be found here.įor more information or to volunteer, please visit 12 July, NATO concluded its two-day summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. The recording of the next book can be found here.

This is the recording of book thirteen, which covers events in the year 1812. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.

While today it is considered a novel, it broke so many novelistic conventions of its day that many critics of Tolstoy's time did not consider it as such. War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, age and marriage. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. Librivox public domain recording of War and Peace, Book 13, by Leo Tolstoy.