Henry Treece
Birth date: December 22, 1911
Died: June 10, 1966
Henry Treece's Books
The usual superb blend of fiction and history with gorgeous prose and vivid scene-setting. Great middle chapter of this sage.
With his usual elegance, Treece shows us Boudica's AD 60-61 revolt from the perspective of a pair of Roman soldiers sent to kill her. Suspenseful, informative, emotional, tightly written.
The usual enjoyable Treece. I'm having a lot of fun going through his novels. An underrated writer for sure, though he's as good as Lloyd Alexander and his books are chockful of well-done research that really immerses you in these worlds he writes about. Here, he does away with the romaticism of the...
The Crusades are one of the most fascinating and bizarre events in the history of the world, and almost a thousand years later we are still feeling their impact. An understanding of the Crusades is crucial to any understanding of the relationship between the west and the Muslim world today.