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To: CT
Also try Henry Sienkiewicz's Pan Wolodyjowski

(Translated Pan Michael?, 1888, relating to a tale of the wars with the Moslem Ottomans) aka Fire in the Steppe.

Though I'm not sure if this actually covers the Battle of Vienna.

17 posted on 09/12/2005 5:43:08 PM PDT by bummerdude (Boycott Chevron-Texaco, buy Exxon-Mobil !)
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To: bummerdude

It doesn't. The book ends with siege of Kamieniec in 1672, 11 years before Sobieski saved Vienna from the Ottomans. And by the way, Fire in The Steppe (literal translation of the title from Polish is "By Fire and Sword") is about Polish-Cossack wars in the Ukraine. The third - sequentially middle - novel of this trilogy, "The Deluge" is about Swedish invasion of Poland.


35 posted on 09/12/2005 7:22:47 PM PDT by fotw
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