Richard, a young Norman knight of southern Italy, wins friends and enemies, a brother and a sworn foe in Palermo and beyond before taking the cross. The historian William Stearns Davis follows him with the First Crusade through Byzantium and the Seljuk wars to Jerusalem, set against the clash of Christendom and Islam.
A big, colourful crusade romance by a professional historian of the period. Download the free EPUB.