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We have been swept by countless authors in to the east, there but their tales were based by few. In a period when westerners nevertheless talked openly about “the white man’s load,” Harold Lamb was creating action-packed stories offering Arabs, Mongols, and Hindus as brave, supportive, and plausible heroes: men of honor and ethics prepared to lay out their lives due to their nations and their comrades. Assembled within this amount are four novellas and three brief stories learned from the job of 1 of the best pulp authors. Lamb fundamentally gained recognition and awards for his correct historic study and was frequently used by their State Department for his Middle-Eastern knowledge, but before some of he picked these fascinating stories of adventure. In “The Guard,” Khalil el Khadr reaches storied Constantinople simply before it's trapped by a group of crusaders. He should endure the intrigues of his opponents, avoid the penetrating Franks, save the maiden under his charge, and escape with the city’s many fantastic mount.