I've noticed that a lot of folks write about the days of knights and sorcerers, Etc. I've just finished the first book of a trilogy of , admittedly long, historical novels that incidentally won the author the nobel prize. What a hoot! The armored knights of the Polish-Lithituanian commonwealth, in 1648/9 are fighting for the life of their country against a rebellion of the Cossacks and the Ukrainian peasants (my people), aided by the Tatars led by the Great Khan.