"The text is the opening for the first chapter in the historical novel Surgeon's Stories: Times of Gustaf Adolf by finnish writer Zacharias Topelius (1818-1898). It's the opening for the whole giant three-piece novel, which begins with the Thirty Years War fought in Europe between 1618 and 1648 and ends somewhere in the Napoleon Wars. The text caught my eye the first time I read the book(s) and since then I've been planning to use it as an opening."
"The text is the opening for the first chapter in the historical novel Surgeon's Stories: Times of Gustaf Adolf by finnish writer Zacharias Topelius (1818-1898). It's the opening for the whole giant three-piece novel, which begins with the Thirty Years War fought in Europe between 1618 and 1648 and ends somewhere in the Napoleon Wars. The text caught my eye the first time I read the book(s) and since then I've been planning to use it as an opening."