by David Donachie (Author)
Volume #3 in the Crusades trilogy. The crusading armies go from besieging the citadel of Antioch to themselves being besieged. Although Bohemund, leader of the Apulian Normans, takes a firm grip on the city, his depleted army is thinned by death, disease, and defection. Meanwhile, Tancred is the first onto the walls of Jerusalem and a leader when it comes to entering the Holy City, but it remains to be seen if he will rise to become the Prince of Legend.
Author Biography
David Donachie (1944-2023) was born in Edinburgh. He always had an abiding interest in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the British navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He had more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million combined sales. David lived in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.