title: Warriors: Exceptional Tales from the Battlefield
author:  Sir Max Hastings 
description: Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, best-sellers translated around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.
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  Winning His Spurs
  
  
    
    
  CHAPTER I. THE OUTLAWS.  
    
  CHAPTER II. A RESCUE.  
    
  CHAPTER III. THE CAPTURE OF WORTHAM HOLD.  
    
  CHAPTER IV. THE CRUSADES.  
    
  CHAPTER V. PREPARATIONS.  
    
  CHAPTER VI. THE LISTS.  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. REVENGE.  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. THE ATTACK.  
    
  CHAPTER IX. THE PRINCESS BERENGARIA.  
    
  CHAPTER X. PIRATES.  
    
  CHAPTER XI. IN THE HOLY LAND.  
    
  CHAPTER XII. THE ACCOLADE.  
    
  [CHAPTER XIII. IN THE HANDS OF THE
  SARACENS.](Winning%20His%20Spurs_split_001.html#filepos259886)  
    
  [CHAPTER XIV. AN EFFORT FOR
  FREEDOM.](Winning%20His%20Spurs_split_001.html#filepos282919)  
    
  [CHAPTER XV. A HERMIT'S
  TALE.](Winning%20His%20Spurs_split_001.html#filepos304873)  
    
  [CHAPTER XVI. A FIGHT OF
  HEROES.](Winning%20His%20Spurs_split_001.html#filepos325943)  
    
  [CHAPTER XVII. AN ALPINE
  STORM.](Winning%20His%20Spurs_split_001.html#filepos349614)  
    
  [CHAPTER XVIII. SENTENCED TO
  DEATH.](Winning%20His%20Spurs_split_001.html#f