Agincourt
Author(s): Bernard Cornwell

Agincourt is classic Cornwell[with] attention to historical detail, well-paced action, and descriptive writing that is a pleasure to read.
Boston Globe

Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times bestselling reigning king of historical fiction (USA Today), tackles his most thrilling, rich, and enthralling subject yetthe heroic tale of Agincourt. The epic battle immortalized by William Shakespeare in his classic Henry V is the background for this breathtaking tale of heroism, love, devotion, and duty from the legendary author of the Richard Sharpe novels and the Saxon Tales. This extraordinary adventure will captivate from page one, proving once again and most powerfully, as author Lee Child attests, that nobody in the world does this stuff better than Cornwell.

Review(s):
A brutal and visceral tour through the medieval world, where life is balanced on the point of an arrow, and where war is fought with every bit of sinew in ones body. A brilliant and stunning epic of ordinary men facing insurmountable odds. It left me breathless.
A compelling novel of the events leading to, and culminating in, one of the touchstone battles of Medieval Europe. 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.
Readers who havent discovered Bernard Cornwell dont know what they are missing: his books are page-turners that both educate and entertain. He may well be the best historical novelist writing todayand Agincourt may well be his best novel yet.
A masterful tale of that medieval campaignas terrifying as the razor-sharp arrow storms that the men-at-arms archers let fly.
With a combination of painstaking historical researchhow to make the most effective fire-arrow; how best to blind a man in battle; how to teach a child to prime a crossbowand writing of fierce and urgent vividity, Bernard Cornwell has brought this most crucial and bloody of Europes fifteenth century battles into the sharpest focus. Agincourt had me utterly captivated: I relished every single second of it.
His best book yet. 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.

ISBN:9780061719721