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Originally Posted by sabredog
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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You might also take a look at Rosemary Surtcliffe’s
The Eagle of the Ninth. Written as a kid’s book, and they made a pig’s ear of the movie last year (“The Eagle”), but a good read with heroic Roman swordplay. Her
Sword at Sunset – a recasting of the Arthur story set in post-Roman Britain – was written for a more adult audience. And though not technically “historic,” the
Conan the Barbarian books (Robert Howard and others) are chock-full of heroic swordsmanship.