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The Black Prince has launched a devastating raid deep into France, laying waste to everything in his path. In response, the French have mustered an army that outnumbers the English forces 10 to 1 and and are determined to drive their hated foe from the land after years of bloody conquest. Sir Thomas Blackstone, the British archer knighted on the field of Crecy, has used the intervening years to forge his own war band and has hacked out his own fiefdom in central France. He knows the English are outnumbered, outmanoeuvred and exhausted...but that will not stop him from fighting his way to one of history's greatest military victories. But the field of battle is not only arena in which Blackstone will have to fight for his life...Although Poitiers was a great victory for the English its aftermath will cost Blackstone dear.
Well paced historical fiction. Set in the period after Crecy, Gilman does an excellent job of recreating the period. The characters are distinct and developed. If you like a medieval action work, this is a great choice.
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