After the Siege of Soissons, Nicholas Hook, and English archer and outlaw, is enrolled in the archer company of the doughty Sir John Cornwaille, a leader of Henry V's army. Sickness and the unexpected French defiance at Harfleur reduce the once surperb army to near-shambolic condition. Henry stubbornly refuses to accept defeat and, in appealling weather, leads his shrunken force to what appears to be inevitable disaster - the Battle at Azincourt.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss lives with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of what used to be the United States. When the districts waged war on the Capitol, they were not only defeated, but forced to adhere to a set of rules. As part of these surrender terms, each district must send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised killing-spree event called the Hunger Games. When Katniss's sister is chosen through the games' lottery,...

Young Thomas of Hookton has his first experience of naval warfare during the Hundred Years' War while pursuing his father's murderer, a man who also stole the Holy Grail from the Hookton family's ancient church.