1356

1356
Bernard Cornwell

Go with God and Fight Like the Devil. The remarkable new novel by Britain’s master storyteller, which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers.1356: France stands alert to danger. The English army, victorious at the battle of Crécy and led by the Black Prince, is invading and the French are hunting them down. The bloodiest battles of the Hundred Years War are yet to be fought.Thomas of Hookton, an English archer, becomes trapped withhis outnumbered army. And here, near the town of Poitiers, an extraordinary confrontation will ignite one of the greatest battles of all time.

BERNARD CORNWELL

Copyright

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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2012

Maps © John Gilkes 2012

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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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Source ISBN: 9780007331864

Ebook Edition © 2013 ISBN: 9780007510900

Version: 2018-04-20

is for my grandson, Oscar Cornwell, with love.

‘The English are riding, no-one knows where.’

Warning sent in fourteenth-century France, quoted in

A Fool and His Money by Ann Wroe

Contents

Cover (#u997f93c7-9e67-5d08-b748-1611968d9c99)

Title Page (#ufc8f21ab-8492-5d79-b5d4-9e0bf21a8552)

Copyright (#ua7c43390-765d-579b-a6c5-5604c156ad1f)

Dedication (#u12556c82-3633-5140-8cb9-23be26294d90)

Epigraph (#ud96eb3c2-ac2a-542e-9e7c-2afa731cd12b)

Map (#u7b3cd300-5605-580b-8224-8ac4b9e9c19d)

Prologue: CARCASSONNE (#u90204958-86a1-5aff-beae-79dff98a9e3a)

Part One: AVIGNON (#u52994bb9-27fb-5df3-9d83-92a15b9a8887)

Chapter One (#ub772d65f-ea17-57bf-a52d-aac9f0a002d7)

Chapter Two (#ue56406c6-d069-51cc-a8e4-c5d4139f6c4f)

Chapter Three (#uc30d3a9b-39f7-5e23-a8bd-8d4b762ea472)

Part Two: MONTPELLIER (#u2637cfe0-b5f6-5222-a83a-1908ada8d735)

Chapter Four (#ubfb3fc35-d0df-52c0-be1b-72666e3370f0)

Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: POITIERS (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Four: BATTLE (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)