Fields of Glory

Series: 1 of 3 The Vintener Trilogy

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Date Published: 2015

Book Length: 480

Format: Hardback book I purchased myself

Star Rating: 4/5 I liked it a lot and recommend.

About Book: The year is 1346 and King Edward III is restless. Despite earlier victories his army has still not achieved a major breakthrough and the French crown remains intact. Determined to bring France under English rule and the French army to its knees he has regrouped and planned a new route of attack.

And on the beaches of Normandy his men now mass, ready to march through France to victory. But the French are nowhere to be seen. Edward knows that the worst thing he could do would be to take the battle to the French, where they will have the advantage and so he sets up camp near a small hill at Crecy and waits.

My Thoughts: Michael Jecks is a new author for me, and someone I met recently as we live fairly close to each other in Devon. So, I thought I would try out the Fields of Glory first. I found the book to be an exciting and gripping read. The storyline is well researched, and the characters imperfections shone through and made the each in their own way believable. My favourite character was Beatrice Pouillet, she is the daughter of a gunpowder merchant in France, she came across as young, vulnerable and was on her own fighting to stay alive and her story spread throughout the book was fascinating. A testament to Jecks’ writing. There is a lot of gruesome action, but I don’t think given the subject this could have been avoided. A great read for those interested in historical adventure thrillers.