Henryk Sienkiewicz Legiony Powieść historyczna [1st edition, 1918].

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Henryk Sienkiewicz
Legiony Powieść historyczna

Warsaw [1918] first book edition
Printed by Gebethner & Wolff
(4)255s.,
o. half cloth
Worn piece - worn binding, damaged corner edge of first pages, loosened block, page reinforcements

For. ca: 18x12 cm

Published in episodes since 1914, in "Tygodnik Ilustrowany".
"The action begins in the Polish lands of the Prussian partition. Two friends Marek Kwiatkowski and Stanislaw Cywinski decide to enlist in the Polish legions, which are formed in Italy and fight alongside Napoleon Bonaparte against Austria. The author presents the socio-political and moral situation in the Polish lands under the Prussian partition. The reader observes the daily life of various social groups, their attitude to the partitioning authorities, as well as their views on national issues. Further on, the novel shows the situation of Polish legionaries in Italy after the peace of Campo Formio (1797) between the French Republic and the Habsburg Monarchy.... "