Won by the Sword
Subtitle: A Story of the Thirty Years' War
Publisher: Polyglot Pr Inc
Published: December 30, 2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781411501102
Subjects: War & Military
First sentence: AMOUNTED officer, followed by two orderlies, was proceeding at a brisk trot from Paris to St. Denis, in October, 1639, when he came upon a large party of boys, who, armed with sticks, were advancing in something like military order against a wall on the top of a low hill.