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Waged almost six centuries ago, the Battle of Agincourt still captivates. It is the classic underdog story, and generations have wondered how the English—outmanned by the French six to one—could have succeeded so bravely and brilliantly. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Juliet Barker paints a gripping narrative of the October 1415 clash between the outnumbered English archers and the heavily armored French knights. Populated with chivalrous heroes, dastardly spies, and a ferocious and bold king, AGINCOURT is as earthshaking as its subject—and confirms Juliet Barker's status as both a historian and a storyteller of the first rank.
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Juicypen Cameron
reviewed Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England on February 09, 2012
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England
Going to war against France, whose king periodically believed himself to have been made of glass, may not have been exactly sporting but does show something of the character of Henry V of England who as Barker tells us in this book had been shot in the face by an arrow at the battle of Shrewsbury, the wound was packed out much as large wounds are today until it healed.
Barker's approach is to delight in the detail available to us from the Royal accounts. We see the amounts of supplies and who they came from such as the woman blacksmith involved in producing armaments, and also every man signed up for the campaign - at least in terms of numbers, because this was an army raised on contracts with leading figures undertaking to serve for a fixed period of time with a certain number of combatants of a certain type such as armoured men at arms or archers.
As an accessible study of a single campaign this book is a fantastic achievement, it is not however going to give you a view of the larger issues of the Hundred Years war between England and France. Barker does continue her narrative from the aftermath of the battle down to the more or less final defeat of the English in the 1450s in Conquest.
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Add Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England, Waged almost six centuries ago, the Battle of Agincourt still captivates. It is the classic underdog story, and generations have wondered how the English—outmanned by the French six to one—could have succeeded so bravely and brilliantly. Drawing on a wide, Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England, Waged almost six centuries ago, the Battle of Agincourt still captivates. It is the classic underdog story, and generations have wondered how the English—outmanned by the French six to one—could have succeeded so bravely and brilliantly. Drawing on a wide, Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England to your collection on WonderClub |
