The play takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. Its heroine, Raina Petkoff, is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff, one of the heroes of that war, whom she idolizes. On the night after the Battle of Slivnitza, a Swiss mercenary soldier in the Serbian army, Captain Bluntschli, climbs in through her bedroom balcony window and threatens to shoot Raina if she gives the alarm.
| Author: George Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher: Sovereign |
| Publication Date: Aug 19, 2018 |
| Number of Pages: 96 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1787247910 |
| ISBN-13: 9781787247918 |