Volume 1, Part 3 shifts War and Peace into full cinematic momentum—where private lives collide with history, and the story that inspired the BBC miniseries begins to feel unmistakably like prestige television, brought to life by Lily James (Cinderella, Downton Abbey), Gillian Anderson (Scully in The X-Files), Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood, Little Miss Sunshine), Brian Cox (Succession), Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent, and Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley.

This audiobook deepens War and Peace into a richly layered drama where romance, ambition, philosophy, and the looming shadow of war intertwine. Tolstoy moves like a master filmmaker here—cross-cutting between glittering salons and the growing tremors of conflict, letting character arcs unfold with patience and emotional precision.

For movie lovers, Volume 1, Part 3 plays like the episode where everything sharpens. Relationships grow more complicated. Ideals are tested. The world widens, and the stakes quietly rise. It’s the kind of storytelling modern audiences love in epic adaptations: intimate conversations set against massive historical forces, where every personal choice echoes far beyond the room.

Listening feels like watching a lavish BBC drama with your eyes closed—sumptuous costumes, charged silences, and performances that linger. This is War and Peace revealing why it keeps returning to the screen: because its characters feel alive, its emotions timeless, and its scope as cinematic as anything Hollywood or television has ever produced.

• (00:00:00) - Prince Vasily
• (00:08:48) - Petersburg
• (00:18:48) - The Love Letter of Prince Vasili
• (00:26:11) - Prince Vasily's Birthday
• (00:35:06) - The Princess's Wedding
• (00:42:11) - Prince Nikolai Andreich
• (00:50:20) - The Prince's Stupidity
• (00:50:55) - Prince Vasily's First Visit to his Father
• (00:52:50) - The Princess Mariya's Wedding
• (01:01:20) - The Princess Mariya's Forbidden Love
• (01:02:39) - The Princess Maria
• (01:08:50) - Prince Nikolai Andreyevich
• (01:13:37) - Prince Nikolai Andreyevich
• (01:16:18) - Anatole the Russian Prince
• (01:22:28) - The Princess Maria and the Prince
• (01:27:09) - Prince Nikolai Andreyevich's Proposal for Madem
• (01:33:38) - Prince Facili at the wedding of his daughter
• (01:36:21) - Princess Maria
• (01:37:13) - The War and Peace
• (01:42:27) - Sonia wrote to Nicholas and to Boris
• (01:50:50) - Nikolushka the Guard
• (01:52:16) - The Imperial Guards Review
• (02:01:46) - The Letter of Suggestion for a New Adutant
• (02:08:01) - When Prince Andre
• (02:13:26) - The Review of the Russian Army
• (02:25:47) - The Prince Andrei
• (02:37:41) - Prince Andrei Bolkonski
• (02:41:20) - The Battle of Vischau
• (02:51:15) - The Love of the Sovereign
• (02:54:03) - The Great Clock of War and Peace
• (03:04:40) - The Plan of Battle
• (03:16:04) - Prince Andre at the War
• (03:21:10) - The Night of the Emperor
• (03:27:12) - Sharing and shouting in the night greatly disturbed Rostov's horse
• (03:33:38) - Count Rostov
• (03:34:14) - Napoleon's Orders for the Army
• (03:36:04) - The Battle of Kursk
• (03:45:44) - The Day of the Infiltrations
• (03:49:46) - Prince Andrei at the Battle of Pritzen
• (03:52:06) - General Kutasov at the Battle of Lenkov
• (03:59:43) - The Emperor's Review
• (04:03:54) - Prince Andre at the Battle of Orissa
• (04:10:42) - Prince Andrei and the battalion were now 20 paces from the battery
• (04:13:34) - Battle of Pratzen
• (04:23:20) - Battle of Pratzen
• (04:25:45) - The Battle of Pratzen
• (04:33:33) - The Fate of Rostov
• (04:42:26) - Battle of Pratzer Hill
• (04:51:49) - The Life of Prince Andre