The book tells about the life in war and peace of the two most famous commanders of the French king Louis XIV - Marshal Henri de Turenne and Prince Louis de Conde, who entered the annals of military and political history. The XVII century itself - transitional, contradictory, stormy and dynamic - largely determined the occupation of these noble aristocrats of France, and their exceptional talents and origin raised them to the pinnacle of fame. For the first time in modern literature, the author, comparing her heroes, made an attempt to show not so much their difference as unity. The campaigns of the end of the Thirty Years War and the wars of the Sun King Louis XIV are organically intertwined in the book with bizarre images of the era, with ups and downs, tragedies and joys in the personal lives of Turenne and Conde.