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Essex Dogs
by Dan Jones
Book 1 in the Essex Dogs series.
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France, 1346. Edward III launches a major invasion, and the Essex Dogs join the army moving from the Normandy coast towards Crécy. Loveday FitzTalbot commands a close-knit company made up of hardened fighters and damaged outsiders: Scotsman, Pismire, Father and Romford, a gifted young archer fleeing his past. Their campaign is experienced not from the royal council or a noble household, but from the road, the baggage train and the front rank.
The Dogs must survive raids, hunger, indiscipline and the confusion of battle while deciding how far loyalty can protect them from the ambitions of their commanders. Romford’s first campaign becomes a brutal education in violence and comradeship, culminating at the Battle of Crécy. The novel opens the trilogy as a ground-level account of medieval warfare in which survival depends as much on trust and improvisation as skill with sword, axe and longbow.
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