Experience Zadar at the height of its power! An epic battle against the French crusaders and Venetians on the walls of Zadar! A novel about the Crusaders' siege of Zadar "AD 1202" depicts real events that occurred eight centuries ago, when more than 40 000 knights and 350 siege engines arrives before Zadar on more than 500 ships, later sailing for Constantinople. In 1202, a knight called Maius came to Zadar to find his under-aged daughter who had been kidnapped from their family estate in order to be sold into slavery. He finds employment as a personal guard serving the most powerful noble family in Zadar. Serving the Madie family, he will become entangled in numerous diplomatic and political schemes.