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Knight with armour

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KNIGHT WITH ARMOUR is the best historical novel to tackle the epic story of the First Crusade.

We follow an impoverished young knight on the three-year journey to the Holy Land that culminates in the storming of Jerusalem in 1099.

Like most of his contemporaries, Roger has never travelled outside his county, let alone country.

His religious convictions are sincere, if alien to modern sensibilities.

He discovers the yawning gulf between war as celebrated by the troubadours and the grisly reality of life and death on campaign: dysentery, starvation and brutal death in battle.

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Product Details
Cassell military
0304362204 / 9780304362202
Paperback / softback
823.914
16/05/2002
United Kingdom
English
Historic novels
306 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Faber and Faber, 1950.
'Duggan looks upon the past with a connoisseur's relish of villainy and violence' - Thomas C Chubb, NEW YORK TIMES
'Duggan looks upon the past with a connoisseur's relish of villainy and violence' - Thomas C Chubb, NEW YORK TIMES FV Historical fiction, YFA Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)