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... a lively, stimulating account of this bloody day of battle. It is full of both serious research and entertaining gems. Barker makes the politics of the Hundred Years (War lucidly comprehensible.’ )
Erica Wagner, The Times ('History writ fine, overflowing with extraordinary details...a milestone in Agincourt studies’ )
Independent ('She brings vividly to life scenes such as the ceremonial surrender of Harfleur at the outset of the campaign, or the extraordinary pageant mounted by the city of London to celebrate the victorious king's return.’ )
Richard Barber, Literary Review ('Juliet Barker tells this story beautifully. If you buy just one book of history this year, choose this one. It will make a wonderful Christmas present for it is a handsome book, well illustrated, but above all, it is a great story and Juliet Barker has w )
Erica Wagner, The Times ('History writ fine, overflowing with extraordinary details...a milestone in Agincourt studies’ )
Independent ('She brings vividly to life scenes such as the ceremonial surrender of Harfleur at the outset of the campaign, or the extraordinary pageant mounted by the city of London to celebrate the victorious king's return.’ )
Richard Barber, Literary Review ('Juliet Barker tells this story beautifully. If you buy just one book of history this year, choose this one. It will make a wonderful Christmas present for it is a handsome book, well illustrated, but above all, it is a great story and Juliet Barker has w )
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'A gripping story'
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56 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book extremely readable and very entertaining. Not something you can say about a lot of historical tomes.
The author gives a compelling account of the actual battle. So much so that the smell of the horses, the blood and gore and all the other noxious smells that are part and parcel of a battlefield seem to pervade the readers nostrils.
However the book is not just about the battle itself but also about the participants particularly the English King, scheming churchmen and murderous Dukes. The knightly heroes, cowards, surgeons and spies. The book has them all.
The author has made it possible for history to be enjoyed by a wider audience, rather than the academic. History has always been interesting. Books written like this one will make many more readers aware of that fact.
The author gives a compelling account of the actual battle. So much so that the smell of the horses, the blood and gore and all the other noxious smells that are part and parcel of a battlefield seem to pervade the readers nostrils.
However the book is not just about the battle itself but also about the participants particularly the English King, scheming churchmen and murderous Dukes. The knightly heroes, cowards, surgeons and spies. The book has them all.
The author has made it possible for history to be enjoyed by a wider audience, rather than the academic. History has always been interesting. Books written like this one will make many more readers aware of that fact.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've read this book three times within the last six months......I can't recall ever doing so, beyond the age of reading the Beano annual! Juliet Barker has a unique but easy style. It is so rare to find a truly scholarly work that reads like the best of novels. A superb book deserving all possible praise!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book after reading Bernard Cornwell's brilliant Azincourt. He used it as a reference and I can see why. It's unputdownable and full of facts and references presented in a most authoritative and interesting way.
If you only like historical stories and find non-fiction a chore this book will change your mind.
Cornwell's book is like being on the battlefield itself - Juliet Barker's book tells the whys and the wherefores, before during and after, and recounts the suffering and difficulties of middle-ages logistics.
If you only like historical stories and find non-fiction a chore this book will change your mind.
Cornwell's book is like being on the battlefield itself - Juliet Barker's book tells the whys and the wherefores, before during and after, and recounts the suffering and difficulties of middle-ages logistics.
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Wouldn't agree with one review that described the book as a series of lists (although there are certainly one or two). Read more
Published 1 month ago by SimonR
Buy this book!
This book was a joy to read. The author gives an authoratative background to Henry V and the political maneuverings that led to the iconic climax that was Agincourt. Read more
Published 3 months ago by D. E. Colvill
Azincourt
Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Read more
Published 5 months ago by David I. Howells
Bravo Juliet
Juliet Barker is to be congratulated on producing an erudite but highly readable account of the Agincourt campaign of 1415. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Dr. W. H. Konarzewski
Cornwall tells you how, Harker tells you why
Many military histories are plodding, dull affairs that go over in immense detail the various hills and woods, and polearms and stirrups that decided battles. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Will Robertson
Not quite what we want
This is a well-written book. It's also a good history book. It's a reasonable account of the Agincourt war. it is an interesting gloss on the life of Henry V. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Enquirer
A Pleasure to Learn
Bought this book on not much more than a whim and as wanted further info. on this period after reading Azincourt by Bernard Cornwall (another excellent book - see link below) but... Read more
Published 15 months ago by AmBuyer
Yawn...
Dull, dull, dull.
Not sure if I'm becoming intolerant with (middle) age, but this book felt like a series of lists - not always of things which were relevant. Read more
Not sure if I'm becoming intolerant with (middle) age, but this book felt like a series of lists - not always of things which were relevant. Read more
Published 17 months ago by D. Spencer
Agincourt - what an insight!
A truly superb piece of work.I had never realised how complicated the relationships were between the mediaeval european aristocracy. Immense research has obviously gone into this. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Dave Landray
A triumph
A fantastic book. A decent writing style, not too academic but always careful and considered. It was very good at looking at both the big picture and then zooming into telling... Read more
Published 17 months ago by The Emperor
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