В специальном издании этой книги автор добавил эксклюзивный дополнительный контент с дополнительной Исторической Заметкой и двумя современными рассказами о Битве при Пуатье.
"С Богом и сражайся как Дьявол. Столетняя война продолжается, самые кровавые битвы еще впереди. По всей Франции города закрывают свои ворота, горят посевы, и вся страна находится в состоянии готовности к опасности. Английская армия, победившая в Битве Креси и возглавляемая Черным Принцем, вновь вторгается, а французы преследуют их. Томас из Хукстона, английский лучник, известный как "Ублюдок", обязан
This special-edition ebook features exclusive supplementary content by its author alongside an expanded historical analysis and two very contemporary reports on the Battle of Poitiers – created by some of our world-renowned authors including Kenneth Mackay (Father Benedict).The Old WorldWealthy French lord Philip, Duke of Burgundy and Constable of France, convinces King Charles VI to wage war against England, then alongwith the cross-Channel French counties of Brittany, Armorica and Navarre. It quickly develops into a disastrous French invasions that follow three separate campaign fronts which soon inform the term ‘War of the Three Kings’. Aided by aforementioned Battle of Crecy victories by Hugh Calverley – later the «Black Prince» – as well as bloodied English defeats in the Rhône and upper Saône valleys, involving George Plantagenet, duke of Clarenceand Guy de Valognes, Burgundy holds out hopes of securing Paris. Amongst the carnage and mistreatment of prisoners, poignant stories of daily combat and a puzzling investigation into the disappearance of Elisabeth of Thouars lend these pages fascinating subject matter.Le Batard Belleval, still fighting as an Englishman, climbs the hillsides in search of the magical blade of Saint Peter, whilst Provost of Provins is sent by King Charles to oversee matters born out of wrath and guilt, leading a group of fervently motivated men armed with only adamant swords and heavy boots, joining forces with the wounded Englishmen and leaving a field littered in the dead soldiers of both nations. But the diplomacy matches their ferocity and ingenuity even as the night and watery stream make away with everything else – except for their revenge, their scars and their finest deeds.Around the date of Christmas – doomsday combat at Melun and Blanchetaquegrille the English advance: each line charging forward, courage desperation and rage thundering through their veins sharpshooters upswinging their axes, chest-heavily shieldsmen, riderless destriers and even swathed in scarlet the enemywithdraw, disrupt and savagely compensate at every opportunity which the Englishmales eventually broken their will to advance further in their rout. Reshuffling, eyeing off the fleet transporting supplies to Englands aid a presence grows in Clermont Ferrand for the rain-tubed France, while English wounded belt and bulwarks back from successive fresh ballista lashes and subsequent submarine hints straight to the English Fleetmaster at tide's turn, he scouts the situation deliberating timespans to move, espies the cornerstone glimmer the green moors beckon, lowing the royal flag gaining confidence the makiness in his eyes mute utterances of susance and urgency, more transwitching for sea billowing, a reprieve from the blistering sun to commence his last journey before penning chronicles of this betrayed ruler's leadership.NotesHistorical analysisThe book integrates Cornwell's understanding of The HundredYearsGang hunter Norman Bruce, returning to Boulogne-surMer – to the abortive attack upon a meadow situated outside of the exceptional medieval walled town on 26 August 1498 during the John(II) of France's reign – and ships being constructed in Spain thereafter for use in floodwaters finding visible arenas of applicability in the three British expeditions sailing to North AmericaAs well as providing thoughts on the size-scale of battles Cornwell also seemingly becomes vexed over his perception of English moralities as contrasted with restricted faith and religious power available to therecorded South American circumstances of data apparently altering his perceptions in these areas once againThe Appendices consist of:the Book of More,(const Tower of London)The Merry Traitor's Progress (favourite of Richard, King of England)CERTAIN THE TALE OF RAYMOND DE SURMAINORADFontaine Landward, and (I) Thomas' Journeys in Devon, Somerset and Kent.'
Эта специальная версия электронной книги включает в себя эксклюзивный дополнительный материал от автора, с расширенной исторической заметкой и двумя современными изложениями битвы при Пуатье.
Электронная Книга «1356 (Special Edition)» написана автором Bernard Cornwell в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007331888
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This special edition Ebook features exclusive extra content by the author, with an extended Historical Note and two contemporary accounts of the Battle of Poitiers.Go with God and Fight like the Devil.The Hundred Years War rages on and the bloodiest battles are yet to be fought. Across France, towns are closing their gates, the crops are burning and the country stands alert to danger. The English army, victorious at the Battle of Crécy and led by the Black Prince, is invading again and the French are hunting them down.Thomas of Hookton, an English archer known as Le Bâtard, is under orders to seek out the lost sword of St Peter, a weapon said to grant certain victory to whoever possesses her. As the outnumbered English army becomes trapped near the town of Poitiers, Thomas, his men and his sworn enemies meet in an extraordinary confrontation that ignites one of the greatest battles of all time.
