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BERNARD CORNWELL
Copyright
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012
Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2012
Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Maps © John Gilkes 2012
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Source ISBN: 9780007331840
Ebook Edition © September 2012 ISBN: 9780007331888
Version: 2019-01-02
is for my grandson,
Oscar Cornwell,
with love.
‘The English are riding, no-one knows where.’
Warning sent in fourteenth-century France, quoted inA Fool and His Money by Ann Wroe
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