Swords from the East

Harold Lamb (1892–1962), who wrote biographies and screenplays as well as historical fiction, is best remembered for his tales of Cossacks and crusaders. Howard Andrew Jones is the managing editor of Black Gate magazine and the editor of Lamb's Swords from the Desert and Swords from the West, both available in Bison Books editions. James Enge teaches Latin, Greek, and classical civilization at a public university in Ohio. He is the author of Blood of Ambrose and This Crooked Way.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Gate in the SkyThe Wolf-ChaserThe Three PalladinsThe House of the StrongestThe Road of the GiantsAzadi's JestThe NetThe Book of the Tiger: The WarriorThe Book of the Tiger: The EmperorSleeping LionAppendixAbout the AuthorSource Acknowledgments

"Long before multiculturalism became a byword for political correctness, Lamb appreciated an authentic form of it. He once described why he wrote on the people and societies of Asia: 'It all came out of an intense irritation over the fact that all history seemed to draw a north-south line across Europe, through Berlin and Venice, say. Everything was supposed to have happened west of that line, nothing to the east. Ridiculous, of course.'"— John J. Miller, Wall Street Journal