The year is 1415. King Henry V has landed in France with an army of men and ambition, and somewhere in the mud and chaos of the campaign, a young English archer named Ned is about to discover what war actually means. This is not the glorious ballad version of Agincourt. This is blood,arrow wounds, the weight of a longbow after hours of killing, and the strange brotherhood that forms between boys who might not survive the week. G.A. Henty was never sentimental about warfare, and this novel shows why: because he understood that courage is what happens after the fear arrives and doesn't leave. As Ned rises from common soldier to a trusted man in Henry's army, he witnesses the political maneuvering, the brutal realities of medieval siege and skirmish, and the particular horror of the battlefield where the famous English victory becomes a rout of the French. For readers who want history that breathes, sweats, and fights back.
