Customer Reviews:
 Ninth in the Series April 12, 2008
J. Chippindale (England)
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Jack Whyte was born and raised in Scotland, but has lived in Canada for the last forty odd years. He is the author of the Camulod series of books and has just had published the first in a trilogy about probably the most famous Order of knights, ever to come through the pages of history, the Knights Templar.
This is the ninth volume in the continuation of the Camulod Chronicles a series of novels about the Arthurian legends. But anyone expecting the conventional, or Hollywood slant on the legend of Arthur, i.e. knights riding around on destriers in full body armour, something invented several hundred years after Arthur had gone to his grave, if he ever existed at all, will be in for a sharp shock.
The books are set in the 5th century AD a much more likely time for Arthur to have existed, a time when Britain, although free of the Romans, who had gone back across the channel to Rome, was still very much influenced by their occupation.
Granted Jack Whyte's version of the Arthurian legends does not sit well with everybody, but if you forget what you have read before about Arthur and after all that is only information published earlier by Sir Thomas Mallory and has very little credibility in historical terms, and treat the books on their own merits then many will find them not only readable, but also enjoyable.
The Eagle is the story of the beginning of the famous or infamous Camelot. It is the beginning of the love triangle that has come down through the mists of time, involving three people whose love for one another knows no bounds. Those people are Arthur, his wife Guinevere and Lancelot, a man who has found in Arthur a man whose ideals match his own. As the story progresses dark forces plot to stop Arthur from realizing his dream . . .
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