Yippee for a wonderful book 2! Blood, guts, a great human non-perfect main character, & of course Robin Hood = my kinda book! :D Top marks to Mr. Angus Donald for such awesome storytelling, graphic violence, interesting characters both "good" and "bad", & historical accuracy. Some writers just ca...
Seguimos en el punto medio con esta serie de inspiración histórica, que aborda el personaje de Robin Hood desde una perspectiva que pretende ser más realidad y menos leyenda. Pero ojo a las palabras clave, inspiración y pretensión, porque, como el propio Donald reconoce, él es novelista, no histo...
He had undertaken a long and dangerous journey with me in Germany, and between us we had discovered the whereabouts of the captive King Richard and helped to secure his release and return to England. I had been a mere stripling then and even King Richard was now long dead, but the abbot – althoug...
But de Lacy said he would hang any man who took up their offer and the French rode away disappointed, calling us cowards. However, King Philip was far from idle during this time. Indeed, he and his men stirred themselves to great feats in the art of warfare – which, in truth, meant great feats of...
I have never been quite so glad to see a symbol of Norman power in my life. I had grown up in and around Nottingham town but I had never been inside its castle - indeed, had I entered it, I’d have been terrified, as being inside that fortress meant facing torture and death for a thief such as me....
The tree, one of many hundreds of thousands like it in that ancient forest, formed part of a wall of dense greenery on the western side of a leaf-strewn track. The forest road, while undoubtedly one of Henry Plantagenet’s royal highways, might easily have been mistaken for a subterranean tunnel, ...
He’s irresponsible, immature and dangerously reckless.’ The speaker was William Odo, Lord of Edwinstowe, a tall thin man of about thirty years, lolling in a carved wooden chair at the high table of his own hall and digesting the noon-day meal. The man he was comparing to a child was his younger b...
And two good Christians. Well, one Christian and Robin. I had never seen so many Jews in one place before, and it was a strange experience for me. They spoke English or French to each other but occasionally dropped briefly into another guttural language that I could not understand; very few of th...