Dan Jones is one of my favorite British Historian I don't know if I have read all of his non-fiction books dealing with various eras of British history, but it has been a few. Jones puts the story back into History with his very readable, dare I say breezy, takes on various historical periods. So, when I heard that Mr. Jones was trying his hand at fiction, color me there.
Jones has taken the HBO's Band of Brothers and applied the concept to the July 1346 British invasion of France. It is a winning combo, as Jones takes you from a beach landing to a march inland. It is a nice mixture of historical figures interacting with fictional characters to move the story along. Jones mostly employs First Person Narrative to spin the tale, a war weary veteran who starting to feel the pressure of being a leader of a band who are picked for all the dangerous missions.
Dan Jones has stepped up and enter the genre of Historical Fiction that includes some of the greatest series ever written. Dorothy Dunnett, George MacDonald Fraser, Patrick O'Brian and Richard Cornwell to name a few. A special shout out to Christian Cameron's Chivalry Series which starts with The Ill-Made Knight (Not to be confused the T,H. White's book of the same name.)
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