This stirring story dramatically involves a courageous Aquitanian boy, Hugh of Abbey St. Simon, in the events that followed the wholesale invasion of France by the Saracens in the eighth century. Charles "the Hammer" Martel, Abd-ar-Rahman and Duke Odo of Aquitaine are the real, historical personages of this novel set during the Battle of Tours & Poitiers in A.D. 732.
This stirring story dramatically involves a courageous Aquitanian boy, Hugh of Abbey St. Simon, in the events that followed the wholesale invasion of France by the Saracens in the eighth century. Charles "the Hammer" Martel, Abd-ar-Rahman and Duke Odo of Aquitaine are the real, historical personages of this novel set during the Battle of Tours & Poitiers in A.D. 732.