Sable,
War and Peace is an awesome book!!! Let me know what you think after you finish reading it 
I read a lot on Einstein's wife, Milvea Maric (a Serbian). It was very sad how she had to live in Einstein's shadow as she was a brilliant mathematican herself. She gave up her career to support Einstein.
Again, she reinforces one of my mottos " Behind every successful man, there is an even more successful woman." 