1356
A Novel
About this book
The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poitiers and French King John II.
Subjects
- adventure
- american fiction
- fiction
- fiction and related items / adventure / war and combat fiction
- fiction and related items / historical fiction
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, war & military
- france, fiction
- great britain, fiction
- historical
- history
- hundred years' war, 1339-1453
- mercenary troops
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2013-01-27
- poitiers, battle of, france, 1356
- war