Bíró Szabolcs - Anjouk I. - Liliom and vér (2021)

1321. Attila the Brave was once a Knight Templar, the king's first man, who fought there under the Anjou banner, shedding his blood for the then rising dynasty. Over the years, he became a legendary warrior, but after the fateful battle in Rozgony, he hung up his sword so that he could live a peaceful life with his family - far from the royal court, far from all battlefields. However, on a hot spring day, everything changes: a royal delegation arrives at the Slavonian estate to call the knight to war again after almost a decade. Máté Csák, the warlord of the Highlands, the greatest enemy of the House of Anjou, has died, and now is the time to occupy his twenty-eight castles and his entire province, and to return his former subjects to the loyalty of the king. Attila can't do anything else, he dresses in iron again to go on the northern campaign as a lieutenant of the royal banner - and this not only marks the beginning of a new era, but also a whole series of complications. While the royal army is ravaging the land of the Csák, dark clouds are gathering over the heads of the Bátor family in Dubica. The flames flare up and it seems like the fire will never go out...

In the pages of Szabolcs Bíró's large-scale series of historical novels, the destinies of real and fictional characters, masters and servants, kings and soldiers are intertwined and shaped according to the will of God or fate. The opening volume of the series is XIV. tells about the first quarter of the 20th century, the Kingdom of Hungary during the Anjou period - a distant, wildly novel, glorious and blood-soaked age in which the word still mattered, honor had weight, and human life was measured at a completely different price.