Book Review for

An Archer's Tale
by Bernard Cornwell

Book 1 of The Grail Quest series.
A superb 14th century story about Thomas of Hookton, a young yet skilled
 longbowman whose father is killed by an invading army. The soldiers take a
lance that his father said was used by St. George to slay the dragon. Thomas
joins the English army and begins a quest to retrieve the lance and avenge
his father. His adventures include finding a way for the English army to breach
a fortified town, rescuing a beautiful French noblewoman, fighting and evading
the evil knight, Sir Simon Jekyll, and fighting in the historic Battle of Crecy
at the beginning of the English-French Hundred Years War.
 A very well-written story filled with action-packed adventure,
highly descriptive battle scenes, and romance.
 
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