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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 ...more
The war in this series is the Hundred Years War, and the hero is a teenage boy living a quiet (ie. boring) life in ...more


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