Author: Thomas Asbridge

''A rip-roaring new life of Marshal ... [a] splendid account of a great medieval life'' Dan Jones, author of Crusaders''A thoroughly entertaining a...

''Asbridge can''t help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along'' The TimesA superb and definitive one-volume...

Released to coincide with a major BBC TV documentary series on the crusades presented by the author. In the eleventh century, a vast Christian ...

'Here is the English sovereign as a crusader, battling on the fringes of the known world; the warrior-king ... imbued with the heart of a lion'Ev...