Defiant unto death / David Gilman.
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TextSeries: Gilman, David. Master of war ; Publisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 461 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781851913 (paperback); 9781781851906 (hbk.); 1781851905 (hbk.)Subject(s): Hundred Years' War (1339-1453) | 1327 - 1453 | Historical fiction | Great Britain History Edward III, 1327-1377 Fiction | Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 Fiction | War stories | War stories | Mercenary troops -- Fiction | Poitiers, Battle of, France, 1356 -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 -- Fiction | France -- History -- 14th century -- Fiction | France -- History -- John II, 1350-1364 -- Fiction | Great Britain | Great Britain -- History -- Edward III, 1327-1377 -- FictionGenre/Form: War stories | Historical fiction | War stories. | Historical fiction | Historical fiction | War stories -- Adult fiction -- Print | Historical fiction. | Historical fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | War stories. | War stories | Historical fiction. | War stories. | War stories DDC classification: 823/.92 LOC classification: PS3557.I428Also issued online.Summary: FRANCE: 1356. Ten years ago, the greatest army in Christendom was slaughtered at Crecy when Thomas Blackstone and his fellow archers stood their ground and rained death on the steel-clad might of French chivalry. Blackstone left that squalid field a knight. Now, Blackstone commands a war band and has carved out a small fiefdom in northern France. But the wounds of war still bleed and a traitor has given the King of France the means to destroy first his family, and then the English knight himself. As the traitor's net tightens, so the French King's army draws in. Blackstone will stand and fight - in pitched battle and in single combat. He will defy his friends, his family and his king. He may yet defy death, but he can't defy his destiny.
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FRANCE: 1356. Ten years ago, the greatest army in Christendom was slaughtered at Crecy when Thomas Blackstone and his fellow archers stood their ground and rained death on the steel-clad might of French chivalry. Blackstone left that squalid field a knight. Now, Blackstone commands a war band and has carved out a small fiefdom in northern France. But the wounds of war still bleed and a traitor has given the King of France the means to destroy first his family, and then the English knight himself. As the traitor's net tightens, so the French King's army draws in. Blackstone will stand and fight - in pitched battle and in single combat. He will defy his friends, his family and his king. He may yet defy death, but he can't defy his destiny.
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