Books like The Knights of the Cross
Around 1400, the young Polish knight Zbyszko of Bogdaniec vows to win three peacock plumes from the helmets of the Teutonic Knights for Danusia, and his oath draws him into the long war with the Order.
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With Fire and Sword
In 1647, as the Cossack rising of Bohdan Khmelnytsky breaks over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the young knight Jan Skrzetuski falls for Helena and has to fight his way across a burning Ukraine to keep her.
Quo Vadis
In Nero's Rome, the young patrician soldier Marcus Vinicius falls for Lygia, a hostage princess who has secretly become a Christian, as the city moves toward fire and persecution.
The Axe
In thirteenth-century Norway, Olav Audunssøn and Ingunn, raised together and betrothed as children, give in to each other before the marriage is settled, and blood is shed over it.
Wayward Heroes
In the eleventh century, two Icelandic sworn brothers, Þorgeir, who lives for battle, and Þormóður, a poet, set out to win glory in the style of the old sagas.
And Quiet Flows the Don
Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack in a village on the Don, falls for his married neighbour Aksinia before the First World War and the Revolution tear his world apart.
Kristin Lavransdatter
In fourteenth-century Norway, a farmer's daughter defies her father to marry the charming, reckless knight she loves and lives out the long consequences of that choice.
The Pillars of the Earth
A master builder in twelfth-century England devotes his life to constructing a cathedral, and the project spans decades of war, famine, and political intrigue.
The Charles Men
Linked stories of Charles XII of Sweden and the soldiers and subjects who followed him through his long wars against Russia, Poland and Denmark.
The Bridge on the Drina
The stone bridge over the Drina at Višegrad, built by a grand vizier in the 1570s, and the Muslims, Christians and Jews of the town who live around it over four centuries until the First World War.
River God
Taita, a gifted eunuch slave in ancient Egypt, tells of the love between his young mistress Lostris and the soldier Tanus, which her powerful father forbids, as Egypt is torn by civil war and threatened by invaders with horses and chariots.
The Fall of the King
In sixteenth-century Denmark, Mikkel Thøgersen, a restless student, is drawn into the service of King Christian II, and into the wars, cruelties and decline of his reign.
Wolf of the Plains
When his father, a Mongol khan, is poisoned, eleven-year-old Temujin and his family are cast out of the tribe to die on the freezing steppe, and the boy who survives grows into the warlord who will unite the tribes as Genghis Khan.