A review by statman
The Quest for El Cid by R. a. Fletcher, Richard A. Fletcher

2.0

Written more for the historian than for a general audience. The author recognizes the limitations in trying to write about someone from the 11th century given the paucity of original sources about the Cid. He tries to separate the man from the myth and seems to do a good job of that. He does take the whole first half of the book to talk about his contemporaries and set the stage before he even begins to talk about Rodrigo Diaz (The Cid) so it took a while to get to the main subject and even then, there's not much to go on.