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The Lady For Ransom (Paperback)

by Alfred Duggan (Author)

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Publisher: New English Library; paperback / softback edition (1 Jan 1974)
ISBN-10: 0450022250
ISBN-13: 978-0450022258
ASIN: B000KET2BO

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5.0 out of 5 stars How human ambition brought low a great empire, 7 Dec 2006

By	Iain S. Palin (Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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Once again Alfred Duggan has found a little-explored time and place and weaved one of his excellent historical novels out of it.

On the surface this is the tale of Roussel de Balliol and his band of Norman knights and cavalrymen serving as mercenaries in the army of the Byzantine (East Roman) Empire in the latter part of the eleventh century. Told through the eyes of Roussel's page and interpreter it is a fascinating account of the clash of two cultures: the Norman one with its emphasis on martial valour, feudal loyalty, and the direct employment of physical force in pursuit of one's aims, and sophisticated, politically aware, cultured, and devious one of the Empire's ruling classes.

But it is more than that; it is an insight into how a great Empire can be brought low by human ambition. In historical terms it survived until the fall of Constantinople in the mid-fifteenth century, but its downfall started with the events described in the novel as human ambition (the desire of various members of various noble families to do each other down in order to secure the throne for themselves or their relatives) led to battlefield defeat and the abandoning of the Empire's most prosperous (tax-paying) areas to the encroaching Turks, then worked against every effort to recover the situation.

The history is accurate and the story well-told, as seems to be true of everything that Duggan wrote that I have read. He well earned his accolade of one of the best historical fiction writers of the twentieth century and it is very good that his books are coming back into print for a new generation to appreciate.

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