Essex Dogs
Dan Jones - undifferentiated
Historical Fiction
Essex Dogs
by Dan Jones - undifferentiated
—· 496 p· 2022
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Overview
About
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2023 The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years' War. 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,…
Part of a series
The Essex Dogs Trilogy
Vol. I · 1 of 3 volumes
2 more volumes
Pages
496
Penguin Publishing Group
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
3/5
Layered
Rating
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Reader feel
Battlefield Realism9
Worldbuilding8
Pacing8
Historical Immersion8
Prose7
Emotional depth7
Narration7
Plot twists6
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