Charlemagne - Bantam Pathfinder Edition Author:Harold Lamb Out of the lowering darkness of devil-ridden, pagan Europe in the Middle Ages emerges the towering figure of Charlemagne, the King-Warrior who showed the Saxons and the Slavs the power of the Christian sword, united Europe, and made himself titular ruler of the Continent. — Son of an eighth-century barbarian Frankish king, Charles led his first m... more »ilitary expedition when he was eleven. He rose from his father's rude halls to become Holy Roman Emperor, absolute monarch of the Christian world...
Only Harold Lamb, world-famous biographer of history's great conquerors, could illuminate the mists of legend to tell the fascinating life of this amazing king.« less