Essex Dogs

Essex Dogs
by Dan Jones

 
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In September 2022, the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling historian, Dan Jones, made his historical fiction debut with the first instalment of The Essex Dogs Trilogy, an explosive historical adventure set during the Hundred Years War of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe has begun.

Heading ever deeper into enemy territory toward Crécy, this band of brothers knows they are off to fight a battle that will forge nations, and shape the very fabric of human lives. But first they must survive a bloody war in which rules are abandoned and chivalry itself is slaughtered.

Rooted in historical accuracy and told through an unforgettable cast, Essex Dogs delivers the stark reality of medieval war on the ground and shines a light on the fighters and ordinary people caught in the storm.

 

Praise -----------------------------------------------------------------

"War. Looting. Junkies. Pintle-tugging. The English abroad. Dan Jones takes you to the year of our Lord 1346."  --TIBOR FISCHER

"Historical fiction to stand shoulder to shoulder with Bernard Cornwell." --JANE JOHNSON

"Unforgettable characters... thrums with sword swinging energy."  --SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE