01735cam a2200409 i 4500 296048118 TxAuBib 20130416120000.0 120709s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780061969676 0061969672 (OCoLC)824699525 TxAuBib rda Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1356 [BOOK] : a novel / Bernard Cornwell. Thirteen fifty-six. Thireteen hundred, fifty-six. First U. S. edition. New York : HarperCollins, 2013. 464 pages : maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Grail quest ; 4 "Originally published, in slightly different form, in Great Britain in 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers."--Verso. "Go with God, but fight like the devil"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references. Rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recrecation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English defeats the French and captures the Poitiers and French King John II. 20130416. Mercenary troops Fiction. Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 Fiction. Poitiers, Battle of, France, 1356 Fiction. France History 14th century Fiction. War fiction. Historical fiction. Grail quest ; 4.