Bernard Cornwell, the bestselling “reigning king of historical fiction” ( ), tackles his most thrilling, rich, and enthralling subject yet—the heroic tale of . The epic battle immortalized by William Shakespeare in his classic is the background for this breathtaking tale of heroism, love, devotion, and duty from the legendary author of the Richard Sharpe novels and the Saxon Tales. This extraordinary adventure will captivate from page one, proving once again and most powerfully, as author Lee Child attests, that “nobody in the world does this stuff better than Cornwell.”