Sword Brethren

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>1242. After being wounded in the Battle on the Ice Richard Fitz Simon becomes a prisoner of Prince Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod. Alexander intrigued by his captive's story instructs his scholar to assist Richard in writing about his life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Richard's chronicle begins in 1203 when his training to be a knight is disrupted by treachery. He is forced to flee England for L��beck where he begins work for a greedy salt merchant. After an illicit love affair his new life is thrown into turmoil and he joins the Livonian Brothers of the Sword as they </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>embark on imposing the will of God on the pagans of the eastern Baltic</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>. Here he must reconcile with his new life of prayer danger and duty - despite his own religious doubts with as many enemies within the fortified commandery as the wilderness outside. However when their small outpost in Riga is threatened by a large pagan army Richard is compelled to make a crucial decision and fight like never before.</span></p><p></p>