The White Company

-The White Companyis a lively romance, and very good reading for boys and friends of old times and tall knights.- -Andrew Lang

-Start a story by Conan Doyle and you cannot stop reading, whether you are ten or sixty.--Michael Dirda

-The immense talent, passion and literary brilliance that Conan Doyle brought to his work gives him a unique place in English letters.--Stephen Fry

Arthur Conan Doyle-s The White Company (1891) is a vivid and action-packed historical adventure novel set against the backdrop of the Hundred Years- War in 14th century Western Europe. With Doyle-s impeccable eye for historical accuracy, this chivalric tale of a motley gang of Saxon knights en route to battle in France is a breathtaking window into the medieval world.

When Alleyne, a young Saxon noble-man who has been raised in a monastery comes of age, he is in accordance with his father-s will, instructed to experience the outside world. As Alleyne travels through England