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Any books by Bernard Cornwell. The Warlord Chronicles trilogy is really good, it's a retelling of the Arthurian saga on the historical context of the 5th Century. I loved how all the legendary stuff like Camelot and the Round Table were explained, the Table one is my favorite. I don't know how's the original English version is on terms of swearing because I read the Portuguese one, but the sex part is more prominent in the second book, well, it's mostly naked taking part on rituals.

There's also the Grail trilogy by the same author, set during the Hundred Years' War. These were the first books where I genuinely felt sad about the fate of a certain character, he/she (I won't tell) takes a mace blow to the head, and that character survives but the blow took off a part of its brain; it was disheartening to see a character so full of life having to deal with debilitating sequels. Now I'm reading 1356, it's a spin off with the same characters from the Grail trilogy, but the plot is completely different, set some years after the ending of the third book.

They aren't fantasy books, however the Warlord Chronicles is a bit different. You know that Merlin and the other druids are full of s***, but sometimes you start to wonder if everything is just superstitious nonsense, or if there's something else involved.

Both of these books have plenty of battles and combat, and Bernard Cornwell understands how they work in real life and he masterfully translates it to his novels.