Lay down your Arms by Bertha von Suttner — Read

The Prussians Advance on Vienna -- Prussian Officers Quartered at Grumitz -- My Brother Otto's Warlike Ardour -- He Gets Into Trouble -- A Grand Dinner to the Self-Invited Guests -- Sudden Engagement of My Sister Rosa to Prince Henry von Reuss -- General Felicity and Enjoyment -- Departure of the Prussians -- Outbreak of Cholera at Grumitz -- The Château Is Infected -- First Some of the Servants, Then My Sisters, Then Otto Die of Cholera, and Lastly My Father Dies from Heart Disease, Cursing War with His Last Breath -- Conrad's Suicide.

There were Prussians quartered everywhere in the neighbourhood, and now Grumitz had to come into the circle.