Peter van der Werff, burgomaster of Leyden, has married the young Maria, who struggles to find her place beside a stern husband consumed by public duty. When Spanish armies lay siege to the city and famine sets in, her courage, and the choices of soldiers, patricians and burghers around her, are put to the hardest test.
A vivid novel of the 1574 siege of Leyden, in Mary J. Safford’s translation. Download the free EPUB.