Bartek Zwycięzca

Bartek Słowik, a slow, good-natured Polish peasant from the Prussian-ruled Poznań region, is drafted in 1870 and, to his own surprise, becomes a hero at Gravelotte. Sienkiewicz tells what the Iron Cross does to him in the village and in the army that holds him. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.