Kamran Pasha's Shadow of Swords is a sweeping, sweeping epic of love and war. Thanks to his deep knowledge of the history of the Middle East, the author managed to create an amazing work that combines real events of the past and fiction. The depiction of the Third Crusade is replete with reliable details and well conveys the flavor of the era. The religious confrontation, which began at the end of the 11th century, brought the two most powerful rulers of their time to the battlefield - the Muslim Sultan Saladin and the English king Richard the Lionheart. However, they were destined to fight not only for the Holy Land, but also for the love of the Jewish girl Miriam, who managed to capture the hearts of two rulers, born warriors, makers of history. Who will be the winner in a battle where the outcome depends not on the steel of swords, but on the arrows of cupids? You will find the answer on the pages of the novel, walking along with its heroes across the battlefields, plunging into the atmosphere of medieval cruelty and betrayal, experiencing the bitterness of losses and the joy of new meetings...