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Maurice Keen: The diabolical Sir John Hawkwood, 5 May 2005
Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman
by Frances Stonor Saunders.
Faber, 366 pp., £17.99, November 2004,9780571219087 Show More
by Frances Stonor Saunders.
Faber, 366 pp., £17.99, November 2004,
“... of France. A good many English captains made considerable names for themselves in France under Edward III and the Black Prince, and independently on their own account: Robert Knowles and Hugh Calverley for instance. But none achieved quite such fame or rose quite so high as Sir John Hawkwood, the ‘diabolical Englishman’ of Stonor Saunders’s book, did ... ”