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Richard Foreman on Crécy: Men-At-Arms
Richard, you covered Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt in your Band of Brothers series. Was it your intention to write about Crecy too back then? I wrote Band of Brothers some years ago. As much as I grew to admire the courage and skill of the longbowman (it's more...
Oath Breaker, by Adam Staten
Oath breaker is the second book in Staten’s Honour Bound trilogy, following on from Blood Debt, released earlier in 2024. Before I start, I should confess two things: first, that this era is an era that ranks among my favourites, meaning I am predisposed to enjoy...
Episode 185
A Leap in the Dark, by Justin Kerr-Smiley
David Stoddart is a well-respected town councillor with a troubling thrill addiction. By day, he’s a successful businessman and pillar of local society. But as darkness falls, Stoddart slips out of his house to prowl the streets of The Old Town, committing burglaries...
War: Sense and Nonsense
War: Sense and Nonsense Menewood is the second novel about Hild, known today as St Hilda, Abbess of Whitby. Almost everything we know of her comes from a single document, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People (HE), written fifty years after her death by...