By Christoper Buehlman. he year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only […]
By Brendan Simms. The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon. Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fighting […]
By Christopher Hibbert. I think most of us have heard of the French Revolution and perhaps some of the characters in it. Up until reading this book however, the closest I’d come was playing Assassins Creed Unity! The French Revolution was a period […]
By Dan Jones July 1346. The Hundred Years’ War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war belongs to the men on the ground. Swept up in the bloody chaos, a tight-knit company […]
By Juliet Barker. Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and […]
By Dan Jones. Powers and thrones is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD410, to the first contacts between the old and the new worlds in the late fifteenth century. During these eleven centuries […]