The romance of Sienkiewicz in this volume is perhaps the most interesting and fascinating he has yet produced. It is in the very first rank of imaginative and historical romance. The time and scene of the noble story are laid in the middle ages during the conquest of Pagan Lithuania by the military and priestly order of the "Krzyzacy" Knights of the Cross. And the story exhibits with splendid force the collision of race passions and fierce, violent individualities which accompanied that struggle. Those who read it will, in addition to their thrilling interest in the tragical and varied incidents, gain no little insight into the origin and working of the inextinguishable race hatred between Teuton and Slav. It was an unfortunate thing surely, that the conversion of the heathen Lithuanians and Zmudzians was committed so largely to that curious variety of the missionary, the armed knight, banded in brotherhood, sacred and military. To say the least, his sword was a weapon dangerous to his evangelizing purpose. He was always in doubt whether to present to the heathen the one end of it, as a cross for adoration, or the other, as a point _to kill with._ And so, if Poland _was_ made a Catholic nation, she was also made an undying and unalterable hater of the German, the Teutonic name and person.
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wonderful book - 1st volume!,
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This is the reprint edition of a 19th century translation, where the book was translated *in 2 volumes*!This is volume 1 only! It gets 2 stars, because while I love the book, this is only parts I&II, part III was in the 2nd volume of the original edition, which for the life of me I can't find. i.e. if You want to finish the book, either You'll look for volume 2 in an antiquariate, or You'll buy a different, complete edition. (For a complete edition, though a slightly inferior translation, I recommend ISBN 0781804337 .)
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