By Peter de Kuster Introduction: When History Collides with Humanity, What Story Will You Forge? Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is a sprawling epic that intertwines the lives of aristocrats, soldiers, and peasants against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Through characters like Pierre Bezukhov, Andrei Bolkonsky, and Natasha Rostova, Tolstoy dissects the tension between free will…