The Ill-Made Knight
Author: Christian Cameron
ISBN: 9781409137504
Publisher: Orion
Year first published: 11 Mar 2014
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle.On the English side Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy.On the French side, the King and his son, the Dauphin. With 12,000 knights.And then there is William Gold. A cook's boy - the lowest of the low - who had once been branded as a thief. William dreams of being a knight, but in this savage new world of intrigue, betrayal and greed, first he must learn to survive.As rapacious English mercenaries plunder a country already ravaged by plague, and the peasantry take violent revenge against the French knights who have failed to protect them, is chivalry any more than a boyish fantasy?
ISBN: 9781409137504
Publisher: Orion
Year first published: 11 Mar 2014
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle.On the English side Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy.On the French side, the King and his son, the Dauphin. With 12,000 knights.And then there is William Gold. A cook's boy - the lowest of the low - who had once been branded as a thief. William dreams of being a knight, but in this savage new world of intrigue, betrayal and greed, first he must learn to survive.As rapacious English mercenaries plunder a country already ravaged by plague, and the peasantry take violent revenge against the French knights who have failed to protect them, is chivalry any more than a boyish fantasy?
