"Dubroc's mother died giving him birth. She has been twenty, his father sixty, and Bosque Redondo blamed the disparity in age for the tragedy.
When [Dubroc] was sixteen, the Dog Soldiers came.
Bosque Redondo watched the Dog Soldiers as they approached his mountain hideout. Though nearing seventy years..."
-- pages 173-4

Just a small problem of mathematics really - if Bosque Redondo was sixty when Dubroc was born, then when Dubroc was sixteen, his father should have been 76, right? Well according to the book, he hadn't even reached seventy yet...

"In fair Verona were we lay our scene."
--page 183

I almost feel mean including this mistake, because it's just a typo. Somebody forgot to put the 'h' in 'where'.

"Lech was hit in the leg and Dubroc struggled to bring him to cover.
Lech spat blood. "Kill them anyway""
--page 374

I know it always looks good to have your heroes spitting blood when they've been shot, but if they've only been shot in the leg then isn't it a little unlikely? (And before you ask, that was the only place he was shot - he could've bitten his tongue?).

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