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The Bombard
by Henry Treece
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During Edward III’s campaign against Calais, a young Englishman becomes attached to one of the primitive gunpowder weapons beginning to appear beside bows, engines and armoured cavalry. The cumbersome bombard is dangerous to its own crew as well as to the enemy, and learning to serve it brings the boy into the brutal routines of siege warfare.
Treece places technological change inside the Hundred Years’ War rather than presenting the cannon as an instant revolution. Hunger, disease, discipline and divided loyalties matter as much as the weapon itself, while the presence of the Black Prince exposes the distance between chivalric reputation and the experience of ordinary fighters. The novel was also published in the United States as Ride into Danger.
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