The Brethren

Two English knights, blood brothers, are in love with the same fair maiden, Rosamund. Instead of falling out over the issue, the brothers march to the Holy Land with the Third Crusade. On arrival, they find the woman they love nearby—but held captive by Saladin himself! The siege of Jerusalem caps this ripping 1904 blood-and-thunderer.

Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers.  Haggard is most famous as the author of the novel King Solomon’s Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indian Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.