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Tony
I was a huge fan of Corwell's Napoleonic Wars-era Sharpe novels, but for some reason never got around to picking up any of his subsequent series. Looking for some page-turning historical action, I finally picked this up the other week and devoured it in days. Although to a certain extent, it felt a little formulaic, Cornwell's formulas are good ones and the results are entertaining.

The war in this series is the Hundred Years War, and the hero is a teenage boy living a quiet (ie. boring) life in
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Neil
Apr 16, 2008 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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