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.
- ISBN10 0304362204
- ISBN13 9780304362202
- Publish Date 16 May 2002 (first published December 1971)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 April 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Cassell Military
- Edition 2nd New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English