[The White Company (1891) -- Obras de Conan Doyle, 10 - Série Ficção Histórica, Vol. I] A Guerra dos Cem Anos, retratada por Conan Doyle na atmosfera romântica e heróica do século XIX, serve de pano de fundo à "Companhia Branca", história de um grupo de mercenários medievais ingleses chefiados por Sir Nigel Loring -- Unidos pelo carisma e generosidade de Sir Nigel, no respeito às ordens do Rei - Eduardo III - e do seu comandante e herdeiro Eduardo, o famoso Príncipe Negro; aos valores da tradição inglesa de patriotismo e à sede por aventura, vitórias e honras -- a Companhia parte para França com o intuito de participar de uma lucrativa temporada nas guerras e torneios locais... O mundo medieval da cavalaria é revelado nos seus variados aspectos e a história de "aventuras militares" contada de forma emocionante, não escapando um toque de humor. Recorda-se que Sir Nigel já, anteriormente, mereceu um livro [O Escudeiro Heróico] onde foram contadas as suas peripécias e o início de carreira do personagem. [Wikipedia] The "White Company" of the title is a free company of archers, led by one of the main characters. The name is taken from a real-life 14th-Century Italian mercenary company, led by John Hawkwood. The White Company is a historical adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile-Spain. The climax of the book occurs before the Battle of Nájera. Doyle became inspired to write the novel after attending a lecture 'on the Middle Ages' in 1889. After extensive research, The White Company was published in serialized form in 1891 in Cornhill Magazine. The novel is relatively unknown today, though it was very popular up through the Second World War. In fact, Conan Doyle himself regarded this and his other historical novels more highly than the Sherlock Holmes adventures for which he is mainly remembered. ==== https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Company
