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  Agincourt

  Originally titled "Azincourt"

  by Bernard Cornwell

  "The greatest writer of historical adventures today" ( Washington Post ) tackles his richest, most thrilling subject yet—the heroic tale of Agincourt. 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... (more)
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  Agincourt

  Henry V and the Battle that Made England

  by Juliet Barker

  From a master historian comes an astonishing chronicle of life in medieval Europe and the battle that altered the course of an empire. Although almost six centuries old, the Battle of Agincourt still captivates the imaginations of men and women on both sides of the Atlantic. It has been immortalized in high culture (Shakespeare's Henry V) and low (the New York Post prints Henry's battle cry on its editorial... (more)
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  The Face of Battle

  A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme

  by John Keegan

  Although he has never fought in a war the author creates a realistic picture of the fears, pressures, and mechanics of fighting a battle, emphasizing three particular campaigns.
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  1415: Henry V's Year of Glory

  by Ian Mortimer

  The battle of Agincourt was a slaughter ground designed not to advance England's interests directly but to demonstrate God's approval of Henry's royal authority on both sides of the Channel. 1415 was a year of religious persecution, personal suffering and one horrendous battle. This book presents the story of that year.
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  Battlefield Detectives

  by David Wason

  Accompanying the major television series, Battlefield Detectives uses modern technology alongside traditional methods to re-examine the most important battles in history, from The Battle of Little Bighorn to The Charge of the Light Brigade, and from Waterloo to Gallipoli, covering over one thousand years of battles. With a team of experts from a wide range of disciplines from Archeologists and forensic scientists... (more)
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  A History of the Plantagenets: Book 4

  The Last Plantagenets

  by Thomas B. Costain

  The final volume in A History of the Plantagenets covers the century from 1377 to 1485 when civil war ravaged England, rebellious peasants marched on London and wandering preachers sowed dissent in the credulous poor. The last Plantagenet monarchs governed in violence and confusion. Kings came and went, deposed or murdered. Princes and nobles slaughtered or were slaughtered in bloody battles or private feuds.... (more)
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  The Lily and the Leopard

  by Susan Wiggs

  In a turbulent France of 1414, Lianna of France, mistress of a great castle in Normandy, and Rand of England, Henry V's most trusted warrior, experience a destined love as their countries battle for power.
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  Henry V: The Scourge of God.

  by Desmond Seward

  A biography that'll present a radical reassessment of henry v as a brutal warmonger. In the course of the hunderd years war, henry v was the english figure most responsible for the mutual antipathy that existed between french and anglo-saxon. His pursuit of 'dampnum', the art of attacking an opponent by making total war on civilians as well as soldiers, created tremendous distrust and enmity between the french and... (more)
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  Good King Harry

  by Denise Giardina

  Set against the sweeping backdrop of medieval England, Good King Harry brilliantly brings to life one of the most fascinating, conflicted monarchs in history: Henry V. Evoking the sights and sounds of fifteenth-century London, acclaimed author Denise Giardina artfully illuminates the double-edged sword of power--and the momentous events that unfold in the making of a king. . . . A contemplative soul imbued with a... (more)
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  Agincourt

  A New History

  by Anne Curry

  As night fell in Picardy on Thursday 24 October 1415, Henry V and his English troops, worn down by their long march after the taking of Harfleur and diminished by the dysentery they had suffered there, can little have dreamt that the battle of the next day would give them one of the most complete victories ever won. Anne Curry's startling new history recreates the campaign and battle from the perspectives of the... (more)
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  A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Book 1

  The Birth of Britain

  by Winston S. Churchill

  The Birth of Britain is the first volume of A History of the English Speaking Peoples, the immensely popular and eminently readable four-volume work by Winston Churchill . A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their impact on the development of the legal and political institutions of the English. Indeed, Churchill celebrates the creation... (more)
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  THE FACE OF BATTLE

  by John Keegan

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  The Lily and the Leopard

  by Susan Wiggs

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  THWARTED QUEEN

  THE BRIDE PRICE (THWARTED QUEEN)

  by Cynthia Sally Haggard

  THE BRIDE PRICE is the first in a series of four books about Cecylee Neville (1415-1495), mother of Richard III and Edward IV, Queen by Right and Abbess. This tale of Cecylee’s girlhood will appeal to readers of YA novels.Cecylee is the apple of her mother’s eye. The seventh daughter, she is the only one left unmarried by 1424, the year she turns nine. In her father’s eyes, however, she is merely a... (more)
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  Agincourt

  The King, the Campaign, the Battle

  by Juliet Barker