"Born a serf Pietro di Donati rose to become one of the greatest knights in all Christendom, in an age when Europe's peasants were held in bondage to their feudal lords, and while the Crusaders were committing terrible atrocities in the name of religion. Frank Yerby vividly brings to life the bloody private wars, the endless sieges, the medieval battles, cleverly interweaving Pietro's own story, and his love for two women: one passionate and the other cold and bitter as the winter snows."
"Enormously enjoyable and historically most instructive. Mr Yerby has done much serious research, and draws an effective contrast between the civilised outlook of the ruler I used to but shall never again call Saladin, and the barbaric Christendom that opposed him." - THE OBSERVER
"Thirteenth-century Europe has been brought vividly to life for us by an American whose novel is both intense and absorbing...this novel in, to say the least, instructive in the purely historical sense; extremely satisfying in the purely entertaining sense." - CAMBRIDGE DAILY NEWS
"Great medieval battles are brought to vivid life...Mr Yerby's pages are always alive and entertaining." - MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
A lengthy medieval adventure novel with dense footnotes written by, of all people, a mixed-race American.
Genre: General Fiction
"Enormously enjoyable and historically most instructive. Mr Yerby has done much serious research, and draws an effective contrast between the civilised outlook of the ruler I used to but shall never again call Saladin, and the barbaric Christendom that opposed him." - THE OBSERVER
"Thirteenth-century Europe has been brought vividly to life for us by an American whose novel is both intense and absorbing...this novel in, to say the least, instructive in the purely historical sense; extremely satisfying in the purely entertaining sense." - CAMBRIDGE DAILY NEWS
"Great medieval battles are brought to vivid life...Mr Yerby's pages are always alive and entertaining." - MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
A lengthy medieval adventure novel with dense footnotes written by, of all people, a mixed-race American.
Genre: General Fiction
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