Pilgrim’s War

Name: Pilgrim’s War
Rating: 4.3 (213 reviews)

by Michael Jecks Book 1 in the The Holy Wars series.

First published 2018

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France, 1096. Peter the Hermit’s preaching draws families, labourers and minor warriors into an armed pilgrimage towards Jerusalem. Sybille follows because her husband is determined to go; brothers Odo and Fulk carry opposed ideas of faith and adventure, while Jeanne and Guillemette see the march as a possible escape from earlier abuse.

The travellers face hunger, predatory leadership and violence long before reaching the eastern Mediterranean. By following people without secure rank or resources, the novel presents the People’s Crusade as a movement in which hope, coercion and religious promise are repeatedly tested by the practical demands of survival.