About the book: 1961 / The novel is a kind of testament to his people by the German democratic writer Robert Schweichel. A chronicle novel about the Great Peasant War of 1525, the main character of which is the rebel people. Schweichel follows the documentary data very accurately, down to the smallest detail. He uses a number of chronicles and documents of that time, as well as Zimmermann’s book “The History of the Peasant War in Germany,” which Engels not without reason called “a commendable exception from German idealistic historical works».