Praise for BATTLE FLAG: 'A humdinger of a blood-and-guts battle' Daily Mail 'Admirably catches the chaotic and bloody nature of the action ... it's a state-of-the-art swashbuckler' Sunday Times Cornwell unerringly hits his form ... battle-scenes of exceptional grandeur pictured in brisk, pungent prose' Mail on Sunday Praise for Bernard Cornwell: 'The best battle scenes of any writer I've ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.' George R.R. Martin

Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex and worked for the BBC for eleven years before meeting Judy, his American wife. Denied an American work permit he wrote a novel instead and has been writing ever since. He and Judy divide their time between Cape Cod and Charleston, South Carolina.