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By Paul Brown

When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to struggle within the Lombard insurrections opposed to the Byzantine empire within the early countless numbers, few may have estimated that inside of a new release those males might have seized keep watch over of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily. How did they make such awesome profits after which consolidate their strength? Paul Brown, during this completely researched and soaking up learn, seeks to reply to those questions and throw gentle onto the Norman conquests around the Mediterranean. all through he specializes in the army facet in their development, as they complicated from mercenaries to conquerors, then crusaders. the tale of the campaigns they undertook in Italy, Sicily, the Balkans and the close to East unearths their striking expertise for battle. The dominant position performed through a succession of Norman leaders is a key subject matter of the narrative – a line of bold and ruthless squaddies that ran from Robert Guiscard and Bohemond to Roger II and Tancred.

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