The novel “The White Company” takes the reader to a distant era of the second half of the 14th century, when two of the strongest European monarchies at the time—England and France—waged a brutal war that entered history under the name of the Hundred Years’ War. In 1366, during the Hundred Years’ War, a lull set in. The so-called “white companies” of volunteers and mercenaries that arose then not only continued the war on French territory, but also played a leading role in the struggle for the Spanish throne.