The Battle in Fiction
The battle features in several historical novels and dramas:
- The Marsh King by C. Walter Hodges
- The Raven and the Cross, a children's television serial
- The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton (who also wrote about the battle in Ethandune, collected in Alarms and Discursions)
- The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell.
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Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or fiction:
“Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)