Martha von Tilling, daughter of an Austrian general, marries young and loses her husband in the war of 1859. Through the Danish war, the war of 1866 with Prussia, a cholera epidemic and the siege of Paris in 1870, she records the battlefields, hospitals and drawing-room patriotism that make her a passionate opponent of war.
The novel that made its author the leading voice of the peace movement and, in 1905, a Nobel Peace laureate. Download the free EPUB.
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