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Praise for Bernard Cornwell and Sword Song: For HB: 'This is typical Cornwell, meticulously researched, massive inscope, brilliant in execution'. The Sun 'Great action scenes, rich in period detail, are underpinned by a feeling for the passions that shaped the Britain we know today'. Sunday Telegraph, Seven Magazine Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation.' Daily Mail
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While the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the fogbound coast of New England. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to “captivate, kill or destroy” the foreign invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat—and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Moore and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere.
Inimitably told in Cornwell’s thrilling narrative style, The Fort is the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between a superpower and a nation in the making.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining historic recreation, a change of pace for Cornwell,
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This review is from: The Fort (Paperback)
This little known battle of the American Revolution was chosen for a historical recreation by Cornwell. Not sure what drew him to it, precisely. There's a reason the battle is not remembered, if the novel is anything to go by. The British land a puny force at a place called Madjabigwaduce (doubt that's spelled right), somewhere in present-day Maine apparently, and the Massachusetts militia decide its their chance for glory. Things do not go well. Black comedy ensues. (spoiler alert?) The ending is somewhat anticlimactic as a result. (end of spoilers) The story is told in with alternating narrative perspectives, a technique unusual for Cornwell. It therefore has less energy than the Sharpe series or pretty much every other Cornwell novel with a clearly identifiable protagonist, but nonetheless provides an entertaining story. If Cornwell didn't provide us opportunities to laugh at his hapless characters, this story would be a drag. Cornwell milks all the gore he can out of the limited battle sequences, but this book is about a bunch of people who really, when it comes down to it, don't want to fight.
4.0 out of 5 stars
enjoyable historical novel,
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This review is from: The Fort (Paperback)
This is the first novel I have read by Bernard Cornwell, so I cannot compare "The Fort" to his other books. I thought it was an enjoyable story, well-written and with a wealth of historical detail. Many of the characters were real people, such as Paul Revere, and the story is reconstructed from surviving historical records. I would have enjoyed a few more maps, but overall I was happy to have read this book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not up to his usual high level,
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A book that you read and after you close it for the last time you think "so?"Really not worth the effort (to write or read)
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