Julio Desnoyers, the idle grandson of an Argentine cattle baron, is courting a married woman in Paris when war breaks out in 1914, while his German cousins serve the other side. His father, Don Marcelo, stays on at his château on the Marne and watches the invasion arrive at his door, and conquest, war, famine and death come to ride over France.
The top-selling novel in America in 1919, later filmed with Rudolph Valentino. Download the free EPUB.