James Wilde, Hereward - The Devil's Army Reviews

“Bleak, brutal, brilliant!”

Written on: 25/11/2012 by TGittins (5 reviews written)

I haven’t yet read this author’s debut novel, “Hereward” – but I shall! This latest book has everything I expect from the genre of Historical fiction. Set in a period about which there seems to have been little cinematic dramatisation – the Norman Conquest, after the Battle of Hastings – Hereward is the Man from Mercia who leads a guerrilla action against the cold-hearted Normans, who would rather destroy England than let anyone take it back from them. I remember there being... (read more)