{"product_id":"the-knights-of-the-broken-cross","title":"The Knights of the Broken Cross – Medieval Military History Ebook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoyal Hungary, 1664. An empire is advancing. A fortress stands in its path. And an enemy thought dead has returned.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaptain Sebastian Falkenhayn has spent sixteen years fighting the Ottoman Empire. He knows its soldiers, its weapons and the terrible sound of its armies approaching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut when a remote frontier position is attacked, Sebastian discovers something far more dangerous than Ottoman raiders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBrotherhood of the Broken Cross\u003c\/strong\u003e has returned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve years earlier, Sebastian believed the secret brotherhood had been destroyed. Now its soldiers are operating behind Ottoman lines, selling information, weapons and betrayal to whoever will pay—and their leader, Colonel Ulrich von Tressen, wants something Sebastian has carried since the brotherhood's fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA key.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree months later, tens of thousands of Ottoman troops surround the vital Danube fortress of Várhely. While its defenders prepare for a brutal siege, Sebastian is given an almost impossible mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith only seven companions, he must cross the Ottoman lines, penetrate enemy territory and discover the purpose of three mysterious siege guns being guarded far behind the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat they uncover is a conspiracy capable of changing the course of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHunted by Janissaries, cavalry and the mercenaries of the Broken Cross, Sebastian and his companions must fight their way through enemy camps, burning villages, hidden fortresses and battlefields while an Ottoman army closes around Várhely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd somewhere ahead waits Ulrich—a man Sebastian once watched die.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Knights of the Broken Cross\u003c\/strong\u003e is a sweeping historical military adventure packed with sieges, desperate missions, musket battles, sword fights, betrayal and brotherhood, set against the clash between the Habsburg and Ottoman worlds in seventeenth-century Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEight warriors. An army between them and home. And a brotherhood that should have stayed dead.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swan Military Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58585135153496,"sku":null,"price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/8693\/5896\/files\/TheKnightsofTheBrokenCrossImage.png?v=1790595204","url":"https:\/\/swanmilitarybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/the-knights-of-the-broken-cross","provider":"Swan Military Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}