Agincourt - Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell
Agincourt
Agincourt
is for my granddaughter,
Esme Cornwell,
with love.
Agincourt is one of the most instantly and vividly visualized of all epic passages in English history…. It is a victory of the weak over the strong, of the common soldier over the mounted knight, of resolution over bombast…. It is also a story of slaughter-yard behaviour and of outright atrocity.
Sir John Keegan, The Face of Battle
…there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carca ...