KEMP , ROAD TO CRECY - A Novel of the Hundred Year's War by Hall, Daniel

AUTOGRAPHED EDITION, signed by the author on a custom book plate on the front free end paper. London 1996, Orion, English first edition, hard bound in dust jacket, FINE/FINE CONDITION , 6 x 9, 338 pages, 1 map. also writes the Killigrew series under the pen name Jonathan Lunn. ]--------------------------------------------------------------This novel, first in a series, and the author's FIRST BOOK , follows the adventures of Martin Kemp, wrongly accused of murder & rape, who is forced to join Edward III's army on the way to France. For Martin Kemp the choice is easy. Face death by hanging for a rape and murder he did not commit or take his longbow and follow the king on his latest foray against the French.----------------------------------------------------------It seems his dreams of reliving the glorious chivalric adventures of the legendary knights of Arthur's Round Table are about to come true. He will prove himself on the field of battle and return, knighted by his king for valour, to claim the hand of the beautiful Beatrice, daughter of his master Sir John Beaumont.--------------------------------------------------------------The reality is horrifyingly different. Martin's fellow archers are liars, thieves, poachers and brigands; killers wearing a motley array of rags and cast-off pieces of armour. His war is a terrifying odyssey through the panic and confusion of his first battle, the brutal realities of siege warfare and eventually to the field of Crecy where he faces the armoured might of the French nobility. Crecy - a battle where Martin Kemp and the other longbowmen of Edward III will make bloody history.------------------------------------------------------Kemp - The Road to Crecy brings the medieval world vividly to life. It is a time of divine right, an uncaring church, harsh justice and vicious warfare. Martin Kemp is a hero fighting for survival, for his friends, for the love of a woman and for the right to be recognised as any man's equal.