ANIMAL WARS

General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms series

By: David Bush

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

An award-winning omnibus of the first three novella sequels of the acclaimed novel, ”General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms.” In “Animal Revenge,” a washed-out war dog, Cassius, returns to Rome in glory but is disillusioned by the Rome he finds in an allegory about the fall of Rome. In “Animal Attrition,” a white deer, Lars, is banished from his Viking community in Anglo-Saxon Britain and strives to regain his birthright in an allegory about the clash between Christianity and Norse paganism. In ”Animal Conquest,” Jean, a terrier, is accused of murder and departs on a perilous penitential pilgrimage during the Age of the Crusades to a destiny unknown in an allegory about the clash of civilisations that resonates to this day.
This anthropomorphic, fantastical series was a semi-finalist in the 2025 Chanticleer International Book Awards in the Collections & Anthologies category.