In the year 1034, a young Norse warrior named Harald Sigurdson—later known as Hardrada—arrives in Constantinople with his two loyal Icelandic friends, Wulf and Haldor. Seeking fortune and glory, they offer their swords to the Byzantine Empire and are swiftly inducted into the elite Varangian Guard. But the glittering court of Empress Zoë and Emperor Romanus is a treacherous place, where honor is as fragile as the silken curtains that conceal assassins.As Harald navigates the labyri...

The year is 750 CE. Harald Sigurdsson, a Norse boy, signs onto a Viking ship, The Nameless, and agrees to serve its master, Thorkell Fairhair. As the ship sails out to plunder the coasts of England and Scotland, Harald sees men injured, drowned, and killed in battle, and Harald himself kills his first man with his Viking sword.The Viking Trilogy is a trilogy of juvenile historical novels by Henry Treece.They are Viking's Dawn, The Road to Miklagard and Viking's Sunset. Tree...

Battle, intrigue and Druidism followed to their brutal conclusions in the dark pre-Christian world of the Celts... Henry Treece explores a period in British history when magic and murder were matter-of-fact and the 'civilising' influence of Rome had yet to make headway against the dark and powerful undertow of the Celtic spirit. Something of a cult classic.

Harald, a young early Viking, joins the great warrior Thorkell Fairhar for an adventure on board ship. But will he and the crew meet disaster and death or make it back home from the coasts of Scotland and Ireland?

The epic romance and adventure of King Arthur. "This is the story of 'King' Arthur, as I think it happened," Henry Treece wrote about his novel. The Great Captains is about no romantic ghost but a man of the wild, forbidding world of ancient Britain.

This roaring, virile novel is a fiery recreation of the legend of Jason, the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece. Jason's turbulent marriage to Medea and his tangled affairs with many women form the framework of this spectacular historical which was written in the grand tradition by one of the most brilliant adventure novelists. Crowded with action, battle scenes, treachery, intrigue and raging passions, Jason makes for an unforgettable reading experience - a vivid excursion into a bold and sa...

Then as darkness fled and sun smiled warmly on the land, the rains began to fall. Trees planted themselves wherever they could find a footing—birch and pine, oak and elm, hazel and indomitable alder.So the hunting grounds became fewer, for the trees’ great army had occupied the land, and at last men looked towards the sea for food, forgetting the sweet taste of deer and giant ox, grateful gleaners of salt shellfish now.At length, majestic, sea roared down the tree-hung valley...

This novel is set in the period in which Stonehenge was built. It tells the story of the invasion of the Southern country of Britain by the Golden Strangers, the men of the Sun from across the seas who come in search of fresh pastures. The invaders are turned back from the Village on the Hill, Craig Dun, by Garroch, the young Chieftain of the primitive and terror-ridden community. But his triumph is short-lived, for he falls under the sensual spell of Isca, the golden-haired princess who r...

In his new novel Henry Treece takes as his subject the insurrection of the British queen, Boudicca (Boadicea), in the year 61 A.D. This bloody upheaval, caused by the unjust demands of Nero, resulted in the deaths of some seventy-thousand Romans and their ‘collaborators’. Colchester and St. Albans were gutted and London reduced to ashes. Against this background, Henry Treece sets his hero, Gemellus, a young Roman soldier who is sent out on a mission which might make or break him. His love ...

It was the early part of the year, and the stormy sea birds rode the blustering air that swept across the sea from Ireland.Two people, a man and a girl, walked the cliff-top above the green sea. Behind them, feeding on the wiry tussocks of grass, were small herds of thin sheep; before them, far down, lay a long causeway of ramparted stone, leading across to a castle that stood upon a mound, a squat fortress, much after the old Roman manner. The two people could see a group of young ...

Into this breathtaking trilogy is woven the true spirit of the Vikings, who great thirst for travelling the seas took them on incredible voyages in defiance of icy waters, terrible hardships and bloodthirsty resistance.It is AD 780. Viking's Dawn sees a young Norse boy, Harald Sigurdson, set sail for the Hebrides in the longship 'Nameless'. The goal: to plunder the helpless coastal villages of Britain.Just five years later, undeterred by his first desperate journey, ...

But, doctor, even you, a Hittite, saw what our Mycenaean shields were like! Oh, don’t smile, I may be an old woman, but I know what I am talking about, and if you will be patient, you will understand, too.Our shields were formed by stretching a hide on to a frame, made with rounded cross-bars at top and bottom, fixed to a central spar of ash or olive-wood. The leather at either side, not having the support of the cross-bars, shrank away and pulled in tightly when it dried out. So th...