​​   “Lord what fools these mortals be!” Puck, Midsummer Night’s Dream Bernard Cornwell is best known for his Napoleonic War books about...

Pied Piper was published in 1942. The story is purely imaginary and something of a fairy tale (a nice one, not a Brothers Grimm horror story) but the setting is as realistic as imagination applied to the news of the day could possibly make a setting.