The Deluge: Volume 2
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
This is the second volume of the two-volume work, a continuation of "With Fire and Sword", a huge book that has been called one of the greatest in European literature. Number two of his trilogy on Polish history tells the love story of a man and a woman, tragically separated by stupidity, pride, confusion, and the Swedish invasion of Poland in the 1500s. he divided the nation against him and extracted the best and worst from his fellow citizens.