El Cid

''A fascinating study of historical mythmaking . . . concise and absorbing''
Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East

''Lively, original and fascinating''
David Abulafia, Literary Review

''An enthralling study . . . exceptionally fascinating''
Washington Post

Rodrigo Díaz lived a violently colourful life in eleventh-century Spain. An ambitious military leader, exile and brutal mercenary, he served Chris...