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Tom mentions this as a book his father read to him, featuring the character 'the red ferret' and culminating in the Battle of Poitiers. Conan Doyle considered it better than Sherlock Holmes.

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Mentioned alongside The White Company as another of Conan Doyle's novels about chivalry set in the medieval period.

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Mentioned as the sequel to The White Company, described as 'brilliant' with an account of the Black Death

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Mentioned alongside The White Company as Hundred Years' War fiction