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Condottiere
Sir John Hawkwood has become one of the most formidable mercenary commanders in Italy, old enough to understand that reputation can be as useful as numbers. Rival popes, Milanese power and the ambitions of neighbouring states all attempt to use the White Company, forcing Hawkwood to negotiate contracts and betrayals as carefully as he plans a battle.
When Milanese and Veronese forces threaten to overwhelm him, the veteran commander faces the possibility that the career which made him feared across Europe may end in defeat. The campaign moves toward Castagnaro, where experience, discipline and manoeuvre offer his best chance against superior odds. The novel portrays the condottiero as both soldier and political operator in the fractured city-state world of late medieval Italy.
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