It was initially serialized in several Polish newspapers, chapters appearing in weekly installments. With Fire and Sword is a historical fiction novel, set in the 17th century in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. The novel has been adapted as a film several times, most recently in 1999. It is the first volume of a series known to Poles as The Trilogy, followed by The Deluge ( Potop, 1886) and Fire in the Steppe (originally published under the Polish title Pan Wołodyjowski, which translates to Lord Wolodyjowski).

With Fire and Sword (Polish: Ogniem i mieczem) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884.