Did you like it?
Much better the second time around. I loved it. I especially like the way Tolstoy argues that it was the Battle of Borodin that essentially defeated the French, not Moscow per se. There wasn't much of a fight for Moscow itself. Instead, Napoleon's army simply disintegrated after it entered the city. By the time he realized how precarious his position was, it was too late. His retreat, burdened by his plunder and ill-equipped, was the stuff of disaster.
I also think Tolstoy proposes some interesting historical theories, although they do make the last part of the book somewhat ponderous.