The Ill-Made Knight: The master of historical fiction SUNDAY TIMES
By (Author) Christian Cameron
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
16th January 2014
16th January 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
480
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 32mm
380g
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 fantasyA vivid and gutsy tale of medieval warfare * TELEGRAPH & ARGUS *
Christian Cameron is a writer and military historian. He is a veteran of the United States Navy where he served as both an aviator and an intelligence officer in the first Gulf War, Somalia, and elsewhere. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter, working slowly on a Masters in Classics. Visit his website: www.hippeis.com