The Normans: From Raiders to Kings

5 best books like The Normans: From Raiders to Kings (Lars Brownworth): 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, The Wolf's Call, Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580, Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization, The Virgin in the Ice

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

Author	Roger Crowley
ISBN	1401308503

Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between...

The Wolf's Call

Author

Anthony Ryan

Anthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song - book one of the Raven's Shadow series - took the fantasy world by storm. The sequels, Tower Lord and Queen of Fire were both New York Times bestsellers. Now, Anthony Ryan returns to the world of this acclaimed fantasy series with The Wolf's Call, which begins a thrilling...

Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580

Author	Roger Crowley
ISBN	0571232302

Cervantes, of the "Don Quixote" fame, was in one of these battles. He was a 24-year-old volunteer.

Now I know that hundreds of years ago the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding land areas were considered the center of the world and were a battleground for two great conflicting forces: the...

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

Author	Richard Miles
ISBN	0670022667

An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.

The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians...

The Virgin in the Ice

Author

Ellis Peters

A monk embarks on a dangerous quest to find a trio of missing travelers in this medieval mystery by an Edgar Award–winning author.

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturbing of events. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing...