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by Alfred Duggan (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 306 pages
  • Publisher: Not Avail; New impression edition (Dec 1971)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0432034404
  • ISBN-13: 978-0432034408
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,402,223 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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KNIGHT WITH ARMOUR is the best historical novel to tackle the epic story of the First Crusade. We follow an impoverished young knight on the three-year journey to the Holy Land that culminates in the storming of Jerusalem in 1099. Like most of his contemporaries, Roger has never travelled outside his county, let alone country. His religious convictions are sincere, if alien to modern sensibilities. He discovers the yawning gulf between war as celebrated by the troubadours and the grisly reality of life and death on campaign: dysentery, starvation and brutal death in battle. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Alfred Duggan (1903-64) was a best-selling historical novelist during the 1950s. His novels were real page-turners, but grounded on meticulous historical research. He also wrote some excellent popular histories of Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages. KNIGHT WITH ARMOUR was his first novel, written in 1946. He visited practically every place and battlefield described in the book, having worked on archaeological excavations in Istanbul during the 1930s. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A welcome return, 6 Aug 2002
By Iain S. Palin (Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Knight with Armour (Cassell Military Paperbacks) (Paperback)
In his day Alfred Duggan was spoken of as one of the best historical novelists of the Twentieth Century and it is good to see that some at least of his books are coming back into print. Duggan was an excellent storyteller with an ability to enter into the mindset of his characters and carry the reader to their time and place. His special gift was to find unusual byways of history, those that didn't feature prominently in the school courses, or else minor characters associated with the major historical episodes, and tell their story.

In "Knight With Armour" we see the events of the First Crusade not through the eyes of the well-known figures but through those of Roger, a devout, brave, naïf warrior, an ordinary knight, one of the thousands who made up the Western armies. Through him Duggan is able to tell how it must have been for the great mass of those caught up in what was to them both a great adventure and a religious experience of the most bloody sort. It is fascinating, entertaining, insightful, amusing, sad, and as book lovers put it "a good read".

In showing how ordinary people were able and willing to spill the blood of others in the name of their religion ostensibly devoted to peace the book also carries a warning message for our own times.

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