Blood Red Horse

The blood red horse book is about life in england for a knight during the crusade. The book showed the 'glamour' of warfare and what were the hardships of living during that time period. The protagonist of the story is William Thomas who is going on his first crusade as a knight. He has a blood red horse called Hossana who is about the size of a courser, but it can easily out maneuver a bigger horse. At first, when he leaves, he thinks that the crusades is going to be enjoyable and easy. However, along the way he learns all of the hardships in war and loses some of his loved ones.  

The book shows that lords were respected in the land their owned as they were the most powerful in their kingdom as they controlled everything. It took about 2 generations of families, to build a castle and usually, the lord who started the building of a castle would not live to see it. Most of the time, it was his grandson who inherited the castle. Most of the time, the first born son was the one who inherited everything that his father owned. This means that the second born son got almost nothing and had to find an alternative way to get an income. Most of the time this was from the church.  In the story William was supposed to find a way to get income, but due to the crusade, he  was allowed to become a knight and fight.