Book 1

The Deluge

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Published 4 February 2010
The Deluge is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "the Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword and followed by Fire in the Steppe. The novel tells a story of a fictional Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth soldier and noble Andrzej Kmicic and shows a panorama of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the historical Deluge which was a part of the Northern Wars.