Alfred Duggan
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Alfred Duggan (1903 - 1964) was an English historian, archeologist and best-selling historical novelist during the 1950s. Although he was raised in England, Duggan was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a family of wealthy landowners of British and American descent, his family moving to England when he was two years old. His novels are known for being grounded on meticulous historical research. He also wrote some excellent popular histories of Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages. Knight With Armour was his first novel, written in 1946. He visited practically every place and battlefield described in the book, because he was also an archeologist, having worked on excavations in Istanbul during the 1930s.
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[edit] Books
[edit] Novels
- Knight with Armour (1946)
- Conscience of the King (1951)
- The Little Emperors (1951)
- Lady for Ransom (1953)
- Leopards and lilies (1954)
- God and My Right (1955)
- Winter Quarters (1956)
- Devil's Brood: The Angevin Family (1957)
- Three's Company (1958)
- Children of the Wolf (1959)
- Founding Fathers (1959)
- The Cunning of the Dove (1960)
- The King of Athelney (1961)
- The Right Line of Cerdic (1961)
- Lord Geoffrey's Fancy (1962)
- Besieger of Cities (1963)
- Family Favourites (1963)
- Count Bohemond (1964)
- The Romans (1965)
- Castles (1969)
- Elephants and Castles (1973)
- Alfred the Great (2005)
- Sword of Pleasure (2006)
[edit] Non fiction
- Thomas Becket of Canterbury (1952)
- Julius Caesar: A Great Life in Brief (1955)
- My Life for My Sheep: Thomas a Becket (1955)
- He Died Old: Mithradates Eupator, King of Pontus (1958)
- Look At Castles (1960)
- The Castle Book (1961)
- Look At Churches (1961)
- Growing Up in Thirteenth Century England (1962)
- The Story of the Crusades 1097-1291 (1963)
- Growing up with the Norman Conquest (1965)
- The Falcon And the Dove: A Life of Thomas Becket of Canterbury (1971)
