Excerpt from The Dragoons of La GuercheThe Thirty Years' War had reached that stage of fury which was to lay Germany waste with sack and pillage. It was the hour when the best and bravest generals of Europe met face to face and made of death the sole recognized king from the Elbe to the Danube, from Pomerania to the Palatinate. Two figures dominated the epoch, Gustavus Adolphus, the hero-king of Sweden, and Wallenstein, the master and the sword of the old German Empire. What events might not issue from this stupendous clash of arms!In the midst of the unleashing of these passions, in this whirlwind of blood we return to the personages who figured in "The Huguenot's Love." We shall follow them through new adventures, through intrigues and combats, some of them inspired by rancor and hatred, others by devotion and love.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.