With Fire and Sword (Annotated)

With Fire and Sword, the first volume of Henryk Sienkiewicz's celebrated Trilogy, dramatizes the mid-seventeenth-century Cossack uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Combining historical panorama with romance, military adventure, and epic narration, the novel follows Jan Skrzetuski, Helena Kurcewiczówna, and a vivid cast of nobles, soldiers, and rebels thr...