The Warlord Chronicles

The Warlord Chronicles is Bernard Cornwell's finest work to date. The series is a trilogy consisting of The Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur. Cornwell retells the story of King Arthur and his men. He uses a ´realistic approach´, attempting to try and tell King Arthur's story as it might have happened in a proper historical context. The story takes place around 600 a.d. Therefore Arthur and his followers are warlords rather than knights, pagans mostly instead of christians.


The result is an amazingly well written series, Cornwell is a master story teller, second to none. In fact, I would rank these books as the best I've read since Lord of the Rings.