Gate of the Dead

Name: Gate of the Dead
Rating: 4.5 (4097 reviews)

by David Gilman Book 3 in the Master of War series.

First published 2015

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Thomas Blackstone has made a dangerous name in Italy, where mercenary service among rival city-states gives him enemies as useful as his victories. A summons apparently from the English queen pulls him back across the Alps, through courtly obligation, trial by combat and popular violence in northern France.

The novel widens the Hundred Years’ War beyond the main English and French armies. Its 1358 setting brings together Italy’s mercenary culture, the French political crisis after Poitiers and the disorder that followed royal defeat and heavy taxation. Blackstone moves through a Europe where courts, roads and battlefields are all unsafe.

Historical Periods

Medieval Italy476–1494 CE French Political Crisis of 1356–13581356–1358 CE Late Medieval France1300–1499 CE

Historical people

Edward III of England1312–1377 John II of France1319–1364 Charles V of France1338–1380 Charles II of Navarre1332–1387 Edward, the Black Prince1330–1376