Agincourt

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"THE GREATEST WRITER OF HISTORICAI, ADVENTURES TODAY' (WASHINGTON POST) TACKLES HIS RICHEST, MOST THRII,I,ING SUBJECT YET—THE HEROIC TAEE OF AGINCOURT.
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Young Nicholas Hook is dogged by a cursed past—haunted by what he has failed to do and banished for what he has done. A wanted man in England, he is driven to fight as a mercenary archer in France, where he finds two things he can love: his instincts as a fighting man, and a girl in trouble. Together they survive the notorious massacre at Soissons, an event that shocks all Christendom. With no options left. Hook heads home to England, where his capture means certain death. Instead he is discovered by the young King of England—Henry V himself—and by royal command he takes up the longbow again and dons the cross of Saint George. Hook returns to France as part of the superb army Henry leads in his quest to claim the French crown. But after the English campaign suffers devastating early losses, it becomes clear that Hook and... Tovább

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"THE GREATEST WRITER OF HISTORICAI, ADVENTURES TODAY' (WASHINGTON POST) TACKLES HIS RICHEST, MOST THRII,I,ING SUBJECT YET—THE HEROIC TAEE OF AGINCOURT.
L A K
Young Nicholas Hook is dogged by a cursed past—haunted by what he has failed to do and banished for what he has done. A wanted man in England, he is driven to fight as a mercenary archer in France, where he finds two things he can love: his instincts as a fighting man, and a girl in trouble. Together they survive the notorious massacre at Soissons, an event that shocks all Christendom. With no options left. Hook heads home to England, where his capture means certain death. Instead he is discovered by the young King of England—Henry V himself—and by royal command he takes up the longbow again and dons the cross of Saint George. Hook returns to France as part of the superb army Henry leads in his quest to claim the French crown. But after the English campaign suffers devastating early losses, it becomes clear that Hook and his fellow archers are their king's last resort in a desperate fight against an enemy more daunting than they could ever have imagined.
One of the most dramatic victories in British history, the battle of Agincourt—immortalized by Shakespeare in Henry V—pitted undermanned and overwhelmed English forces against a French army determined to keep their crown out of Henry's hands. Here Bernard Cornwell resurrects the legend of the battle and the "band of brothers" who fought it on October 25, 1415. An epic of redemption, Agincourt follows a commoner, a king, and a nation's entire
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army on an improbable mission to test the will of God and reclaim what is rightfully theirs. From the disasters at the siege of Harfleur to the horrors of the field of Agincourt, this exhilarating story of survival and slaughter is at once a brilliant work of history and a triumph of imagination—Bernard Cornwell at his best.
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BERNARD CORNWEEI,
is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling Saxon Tales, as well as the Richard Sharpé novels, among many others. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod.
www.bernardcornwell.net
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FOREGROUND IMAGE: COLIN ANDERSON / JUPITERIMAGES BACKGROUND IMAGE: KINGDOM OF HEAVEN © 2005 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH © KELLY CAMPBELL JACKET DESIGN BY JARROD TAYLOR
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"Readers who haven't discovered Bernard Cornwell don't know what they are missing: his books are page-turners that both educate and entertain. He may well be the , best historical novelist writing today-and Agincourt may well be his best novel yet* --VINCE FLYNN, AUTHOR OF EXTREIVIE MEASURES ¦
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"Nobody in the world does this stuff better than Cornwell-action set six hundred years ago is as fresh and vital as six days ago, with rough, tough men at war, proving once again that nothing changes least of all great storytelling." ^
-LEE CHILD, AUTHOR OF WOrH/AiG TO i.OSL ? ' ^
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"No one understands the experience of the common soldier better than Bernard^ Cornwell, and in this gripping account of the Agincourt campaign, seen through the , eyes of a simple archer, he tears away the gloss of legend to reveal the raw truth of medieval warfare In all its shocking brutality, filth, and gore." -JULIET BARKER, AUTHOR OF AGINCOURT: HENRY V AND THE BATTLE THAT IVIADE ENGLANl>^^
"With a combination of painstaking historical research and writing of fierce _ ^ and urgent vividity, Bernard Cornwell has brought this most crucial and bloody' ^ , ¦ of Europe's fifteenth-century battles into the sharpest focus. Agincourt had me utterly captivated: I relished every single second of it." -SIMON WINCHESTER, AUTHOR OF THE IVIAN WHO LOVED CHINA-if"
"A brutal and visceral tour through the medieval world, where life is balanceil, i ' on the point of an arrow, and where war is fought witb every bit of ' ' sinew in one's body. A brilliant and stunning epic of ordinary men facing insurmountable odds. It left me breathless." -JAMES ROLLINS, AUTHOR OF THE LAST ORACLE
"Bernard Cornwell has a positive gift for describing the brutality, the grit, the simple manual labor, and the absolute awfulness of battle. This is a really good book." -JOHN S/#q§pRD, AUTHOR OF PW4/VTD/tfPfiL/ "
"A masterful tale of that medieval campaign-as terrifying as the razor-sharp- , ^ arrow storms that the men-at-arms archers let fly# ^ 5 ^^
-W. E. B. GRIFFIN, AUTHOR OF BLACK OPS ?i^ * Vissza