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Rage of Swords
by David Gilman
Book 9 in the Master of War series.
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In 1368, Thomas Blackstone rides toward Milan to secure gold and alliances for the Plantagenet war in France. Lionel of Antwerp’s marriage mission promises political advantage, but Milanese power, assassination and Blackstone’s own enemies turn diplomacy into a road of traps.
The book moves the Hundred Years’ War into northern Italy, where money and marriage matter as much as armies. Its setting links Visconti Milan, English war finance and the continuing instability of France and Aquitaine, showing how a war fought over the French crown also depends on bankers, city-states and dynastic marriages far from the main front.
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