In this volume is told the genuine true story of the first crusaders. It begins with their setting out, and it ends with the death of the last survivor. Almost a thousand years have passed since then, and the lives of these men are known to us only by the chronicles of their days. Upon these original chronicles the story in this book is based. It does not deal with the legends that grew up after the crusades. It is not history revised and re-written. It is the real firsthand account story ...

This is grand reading, this story of the Persian poet, known to the modern world through the Rubaiyat - to his own times as a famous astronomer, promulgator of a new calendar, of the heresy that the earth moved round the sun, of new methods of calculation, favorite of the sultan Malikshah, hated by those who wished to carry favor in his place. The period is the eleventh century - the setting, Nisapur in Persia, with all its pageantry and glamorous romance. Historical characters, veiled in ...

Iron Men and Saints details the First and Second Crusades beginning with their setting out, and it ends with the death of the last survivor. It focuses primarily on the First Crusade and the capture of Antioch and Jerusalem.

An outstanding scholar of the East, author Harold Lamb here presented another one of his brilliant, carefully worked, and blazingly colorful tapestries of a man and his era - in this case, it is Suleiman, wisest and strongest of the Sultans of Turkey, who lived during the dying days of the Renaissance. Suleiman was building an invincible empire to the East. Drawn at first by temperament and beliefs toward Europe, Suleiman learned that the Christian rulers would never regard him as one of t...

The first volume The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints covers the victorious conquests of the crusaders. In this second volume The Crusades: The Flame of Islam, we have an historical accounting of Saladin and his Muslim invasion to take back the Holy Land from the crusaders.

William the Great demi-god's life. From his youth as a handsome young prince who chose books over beautiful women. Who ordered bloody massacres, as a general who battled his was into the unknown, the ascetic who brought richness and luxury to his people, the despot who altered history, the heir to a kingdom no mortal had ever before dared to claim. 3 parts and 22 chapters.

Is it possible that a peasant and a circus girl could come to rule the Roman world? This is the strange tale of the harlot empress Theodora - the eerie beauty whose name stands in history beside Helen of Troy and Cleopatra. The daughter of a circus performer, a footloose vagabond and harlot, whose fierce ambition drove her from man to man until she finally married Justinian, a man of most humble origins who would become one of the greatest emperors of the ancient world!

You want me to fail. It was neither question nor statement. It came in a level voice, the words dropping slowly from the lips of the man in the chair as if he weighed each one. He might have been speaking aloud to himself, as he sat staring directly in front of him, powerful hands crossed placidly over his knees. He was a man that other men would look at twice, and a woman might glance at once—and remember. Yet there was nothing remarkable about him, except perhaps a singular depth of ches...

Malcolm Trent, of the firm of Hammerman, Lee and Rambaud ("Unfailing and unquestioning service" was their motto), was a hotshot 22-year-old who had worked his way up from bank runner to invaluable courier. So, logically, it fell to Malcolm Trent to undertake—to oblige a client—to carry a certain package from New York City to India, and from there to Kashmir, which is on top of India, and thence to a point in the Himalaya Mountains, over the border. It was a valuable package, and he was war...

Robert Gray, ex-Army officer turned soldier of fortune, is hired by the American Exploration Society to find a fabled lost race called the Wusin. In a race against time, taking the path traveled by Marco Polo centuries before, Gray uncovers a plot to keep the Wusun hidden - a plot which if revealed would re-write the whole course of Eastern history forever!

Sand drifting through centuries of wind buried Bolazan, the City of the King, from the time of Ghengis Khan. But the theory that it held lost treasures spurred the interest of two Westerners, who planned to seek it out and win their fortunes.

Asian adventure about a kidnapped woman and the trouble it becomes to attempt to rescue her. Evil men, impassable mountains, bad weather, bandits etc. A true adventure and a ripping good yarn!