The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
England’s Alexander, Dan Jones on Henry V I’m sure many of us remember studying Henry V at school. For those of us at the age of thirteen not wholly thrilled to be forced to read Shakespeare, this play was undeniably entertaining. We even enjoyed mimicking the accents...
Top Five: Books on The Battle of Agincourt Agincourt: The King, The Campaign, The Battle, by Juliet Barker. Combines scholarship with great narrative drive. Barker is strong on detail, grand strategy and looking at the campaign through the eyes of archers and...
Crécy: Finest Hours is a highly engaging exploration of the background of the Hundred Years’ War, the Battle of Crécy, and its aftermath. Gordon Corrigan presents Crécy as a key turning point in English military history, representative of the shifts in English society...
The Battle of Crécy is the first in a series of three books covering the major land battles of the Hundred Years War, that attempt to enforce the English claim to the throne of France by right of inheritance, and to regain those English possessions in France lost by...
The Battle of Crécy is one of the most famous battles of both the Hundred Years War and the late Middle Ages. It made legends of many of its participants including Edward the Black Prince. It was a testament to the skill, daring and cunning of the English; to the...
Michael Livingston, congratulations on the new book, Crécy. We have a few questions. Jonathan Sumption called Crécy a political catastrophe for the French. Just how big a defeat was it, after all the 100 Yrs War had only begun in 1337, and would continue to be fought...
Aspects of History's Tribute to Bernard CornwellAlan Bardos Author of The AssassinsBernard Cornwall’s novels have entertained and moved me for the past thirty years, from tales of the American Civil War, to the Arthurian Legend’s and Uhtred of Bebbanburg‘s battles to...
