About the book: year / The fortress stood bristling with security towers, and black clouds of smoke hung over it with thick, frowning eyebrows. The approaches to the walls, the rampart and the ditch were completely strewn with the bodies of the attackers and defenders, the ground was soaked in blood. Its thick smell lingered in the surrounding area, but the animal, frightened by an even more terrible smell, the smell of war, had long since moved into the very thicket of the forest.