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As a reader, you live the tragic story of the kingdom, which in the end is destroyed by internal conflicts. Personal rivalries, chases on horseback, duels, drinking bouts, epic dialogues and great battles (which no normal European has ever heard of before) are also part of the book. In the course of the book the conflict begins to take serious forms, Pan Jan meets most of the main characters on his travels and missions through Eastern Europe. Along the way he also falls in love with the beautiful princess Helena, who is also desired by a Cossack officer. The main character of the book, the young nobleman Jan Skrzetuski, or Pan Jan for short, is caught in the middle of the beginning Cossack uprising under the legendary Bogdan Chmelnitzky. The size of this first part of the first trilogy of The EASTERN KINGDOM Series is about 300 pages. It is a world forgotten in Central Europe, which was ruled by a kingdom in personal union (Poland-Lithuania). It deals with the uprising of the Cossacks against the Poles in 1648.
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“The Uprising” is the first book of the epic trilogy WITH FIRE AND SWORD.
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Over 3.000 pages full of adventure, tragedy and heroism. All volumes are tracing the interactions between Poland and its neighboring countries in the 17th century. This trilogy is only the first multipart volume of The EASTERN KINGDOM Series which consists in total of three multipart volumes: WITH FIRE AND SWORD, THE DELUGE and FIRE IN THE PLAINS. WITH FIRE AND SWORD is a historical novel trilogy, set in the 17th century in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Khmelnytsky Uprising.