The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217

6 best books like The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217 (Richard Brooks): King Rat, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Fin Gall, Harald Hardrada: The Last Viking, Holy Warrior, The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great

King Rat

Author	James Clavell
ISBN	0385333765

The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses,...

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Author	Tom Holland
ISBN	0385513119

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East,...

Fin Gall

Author

James L. Nelson

Book I of the ongoing Norsemen Saga. 852 A.D. For decades the Vikings have swept out of the Norse countries and fallen on England, Ireland, whatever lands they could reach aboard their longships. Few could resist the power of their violent onslaught. They came at first to plunder, and then to settle,...

Harald Hardrada: The Last Viking

Author	Michael Burr
ISBN	0956790119

In the dead of night, a band of Vikings ravage a lonely convent on the Brittany coast—and their fearsome leader makes a decision that will eventually lead to his downfall. Ranulf de Lannion is fifteen years old. Crippled, deformed, and abandoned by his family to the charity of the convent, he is seized...

Holy Warrior

Author	Angus Donald
ISBN	0751542091

Sphere Arrows will fly. Swords will swing Heroes will fall. Legends will survive. And the Holy Land will never be the same. 1190 AD: Richard the Lionheart has launched his epic crusade to seize Jerusalem from the cruel Saracens.

Marching with the vast royal army is Britain's most famous, most...

The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great

Author	Benjamin R. Merkle
ISBN	1595552529

The unlikely king who saved England.

Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe.

Then,...