Arthur Conan Doyle considered The White Company his finest book, and was forever baffled that readers preferred Sherlock Holmes. A young novice, cast out of his abbey into the world of 1366, falls in with a company of English archers led by a knight of the old school and marches into a France where chivalry has already become a trade. Meticulously researched and gloriously alive, with the longbow at its heart, this edition presents Doyle's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates, Leighton's knights among them.