Conquest - 9781493076260

Globe Pequot Press

ConquestA Conquest Novel\nAuthor(s): David Donachie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Globe Pequot Press, United States\nImprint: McBooks Press\nISBN-13: 9781493076260, 978-1493076260\nSynopsis\nIn twenty years, the de Hauteville brothers have risen from penniless obscurity to become the most potent warrior family in Christendom: depended on by the Pope, feared by Byzantium, and respected by the Holy Roman Emperor. And now Roger, the youngest son, has finally come to Italy, where he also proves himself to be a great warrior and canny politician. It is he who will raise the family to the pinnacle of influence, not as vassals beholden to a greater power, but rulers in their own right.\n\nBut the path is not easy; brotherly love only goes so far and nothing has altered in the bubbling stew of Italian politics. There are enemies at Rogers back as well as before him, battles to fight and defeats to be reversed, treacheries both secret and transparent to circumvent. Yet the loyalty of blood t.