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Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War

by G. A. Henty

★3.8/5
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The scene of this story is laid in France during latter part of the Thirty Years' War---the time of Richelieu, of Mazarin and Anne of Austria. The hero, Hector Campbell, is the orphaned son of a Scottish officer in the French Army.

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