With Fire and Sword (Summarized Edition)

With Fire and Sword, the opening volume of Sienkiewicz's Trilogy, plunges into the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1657) through Jan Skrzetuski, his beloved Helena, the Cossack Bohun, and the sly Onufry Zagłoba. Panoramic campaigns and sieges—Zbaraż, Berestechko—interlace with romance and earthy humor. Archaizing, baroque cadences meet feuilleton pacing, while a multiethnic Commonwealth—Poles, Ruthenia...