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Agincourt: The Story of a Battle
Rosemary Hawley Jarman
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Description for Agincourt: The Story of a Battle
Paperback. The fascinating story of the Battle of Agincourt told by a distinguished historical novelist Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 180.
A small English expeditionary force in Northern France battling to reach the coast before being cut off by an enemy superior in numbers and equipment; a victory plucked from the jaws of a seemingly certain defeat - this story is familiar in the twentieth century. It is also the story of Agincourt in the fifteenth. The distinguished historical novelist Rosemary Hawley Jarman here recreates the whole of the brief, foolhardy expedition mounted by a twenty-eight-year-old English king determined to regain the realm across the Channel he believed was his by right. The siege of Harfleur, the ravages ... Read more
A small English expeditionary force in Northern France battling to reach the coast before being cut off by an enemy superior in numbers and equipment; a victory plucked from the jaws of a seemingly certain defeat - this story is familiar in the twentieth century. It is also the story of Agincourt in the fifteenth. The distinguished historical novelist Rosemary Hawley Jarman here recreates the whole of the brief, foolhardy expedition mounted by a twenty-eight-year-old English king determined to regain the realm across the Channel he believed was his by right. The siege of Harfleur, the ravages ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445619750
SKU
V9781445619750
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99
About Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Better known for her bestselling historical fiction, Agincourt is Rosemary Hawley Jarman's first work of narrative non-fiction. Her other books include We Speak No Treason ('Ablaze with colour, smell and sound' Vogue, 'A rattling good tale' Antonia Fraser); The King's Grey Mare ('Lust, butchery and witchcraft ... richly readable' The Observer) and Crown in Candlelight ('What historical romantic writing should ... Read more
Reviews for Agincourt: The Story of a Battle
`Few authors can capture the fifteenth century so vividly'
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