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How Beornoth Joined King Harold's Body-Guard and Stood with Him in His Last Two Great Battles.

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1 author picked Hounds of the King as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I had to go back to a classic from childhood, the first book I remember crying while reading. I didn't know reading could do that! Set against the backdrop of 1066 and the Norman Invasion of England, this takes an ordinary young man who stumbles into a war and chooses to fight for his country and his king. His realization that there are bigger things than himself and causes worth dying for moved me utterly.

This book shaped me as a writer. The idea of sacrifice and redemption is just so well done. 

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