The God of War

19 hrs. 34 min.

Language Russian

Author David Gilman

Narrator Ilya Dementyev

Description

The main conflict of the Middle Ages—the Hundred Years’ War… It determined the course of European history. "A mountain of books has been written about it, but this is nothing like anything else," marvels an expert from the International Historical Novel Society. By combining the best of historical fiction by Conan Doyle and modern brutal action, David Gilman has essentially created a new subgenre.

England, 1346. Stonemason Thomas Blackstone and his brother are doomed to hang. Their covetous neighbors have framed the young men, accusing them of rape and murder. But they’re lucky—they are the sons of the most skillful archer, and they themselves are master archers.

Now King Edward III and the Black Prince of Wales need every such warrior—whatever he has done. The monarch and his heir march on France, absolutely convinced that its throne belongs to them by right. Together with them, the Blackstones begin a war that will drag on for more than a century…