The knights of the cross. By: Henryk Sienkiewicz, translation from the polish: By: Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906). VOLUME 1. Teutonic Knights, Crusades, Poland -- History Jagellons, 1386-1572

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( also known by the pseudonym "Litwos" 5 May 1846 - 15 November 1916) was a Polish journalist, novelist and the Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1896). Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces. In the late 1870s he traveled to the United State...