The Hundred Years' War is in full swing. English garrisons are in Normandy, Brittany and Aquitaine; the Scottish king, an ally of the French, languishes in the Tower of London; The Black Prince - Edward of Wales - devastates the south of France, which "looks like a large deer tormented by hunting dogs." To completely crush his enemies, Edward launches a devastating raid through the very heart of France, leaving behind burned farms, destroyed mills, cities in ruins and exterminated livestock. The Earl of Northampton orders his vassal, nicknamed the Bastard, to join the troops of Prince Edward, but first to find the treasure of the dark lords - the sword Malis. According to the black monks, this is a powerful relic, the possession of which promises victory in battle. And a great battle lies ahead - in September 1356, superior enemy forces set a trap for the English army near the city of Poitiers... None other than Thomas of Hookton, the hero of the novels “Harlequin”, “The Wanderer”, “The Heretic” calls himself a bastard. "1356. The Great Battle continues this brilliant trilogy written by Bernard Cornwell, an unsurpassed master of literary reconstructions that revive before the eyes of readers the customs and battle scenes of the Middle Ages. For the first time in Russian!