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by David Donachie (Author)
Volume #1 in the Conquest trilogy. 1033, on the Normandy border: Six brothers, trained since birth to become great warriors, prepare to experience their first taste of battle. Following in their father's footsteps, the sons of Tancred de Hauteville are knights with but one true purpose: to fight. Nothing matters more to a Norman of noble birth than skillful swordsmanship and victory in battle - and the de Hautevilles are used to winning.
Author Biography
David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the British navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He has more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million copies sold. David lives in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.
