James of Ecclestone is now a rich man, a family man and a respected landowner. Once the spy of two kings, his life is peaceful. When a Scottish raid touches his family he is forced to draw a sword and go to war once more and when the Scottish king opts for belligerency and threatens war then James has to don a cloak, take his dagger and become a spy once more. Retelling the greatest defeat in Scottish history, Flodden narrates the battle from the viewpoint, not of the great and the good but the billmen who won the victory against all odds.
Flodden is the last book in the Tudor Warrior series. It is the story of the cataclysmic Battle of Flodden when not only the King of Scotland died but many of the greatest nobles in the land. It is the story of billmen and archers doing what knights had failed to do. Using the Swiss pike formation and with an overwhelming array of guns the Scots seemed destined to triumph but the septuagenarians, the Earl of Surrey and Marmaduke Constable outwitted the Scottish king and their men outfought the Scots.
The book brings to an end this short series that links the Wars of the Roses with Elizabethan England.
