A review by arthur_pendrgn
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones by Thomas Asbridge

5.0

Excellent book about William Marshal. I was intrigued after reading Jeff Wheeler's Ransom series. He drew a great deal upon Marshal's life. This text was an informative and entertaining read. Asbridge contextualizes the events so the reader should be able to see the intertwining of Marshal's decisions and history. I came to this book with a modicum of knowledge about the general time period and the kings. I think if you have no sense of that period of history, you may have some difficulty. Asbridge tries very hard, but he had to assume the reader had some knowledge or the book would have been much longer.