Nicholas Hook is an English shepherd's son, trained to the bow from childhood, embroiled from birth in a vendetta against the family responsible for his grandfather's murder. 'Cornwell's narration is quite masterly and supremely well-researched' Observerīernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex, and now lives mainly in the USA with his wife.Agincourt is a masterpiece of war fiction, taking readers as close to the experience of medieval warfare as any of us would probably ever want to come.
Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation' Daily Mail 'Great action scenes, rich in period detail, are underpinned by a feeling for the passions that shaped the Britain we know today' Sunday Telegraph, Seven Magazineīernard Cornwell is a literary miracle.
‘This is typical Cornwell, meticulously researched, massive inscope, brilliant in execution’ The Sun Praise for Bernard Cornwell and Sword Song: ‘a vivid, breathtaking and meticulously well research account’ ‘An extrordinary and dramatic description of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelist’ 'Nobody in the world does this stuff better than Cornwell – action set six hundred years ago is a fresh and vital as six days ago, with rough, tough men at war, proving once again that nothing changes – least of all great storytelling’ No one else could hope to take Shakespeare’s Henry V, strip it of its rhetoric and tell the unvarnished truth about the Battle of Agincourt’ No other historical novelist has acquired such a mastery of the minutiae of warfare in centuries past.
‘If Bernard Cornwell was born to write one book, this is it. From the varying viewpoints of nobles, peasants, archers, and horsemen, Azincourt skilfully brings to life the hours of relentless fighting, the desperation of an army crippled by disease and the exceptional bravery of the English soldiers. An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelistĪgincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, St Crispin's Day, is one of England’s best-known battles, in part through the brilliant depiction of it in Shakespeare's Henry V, in part because it was a brilliant and unexpected English victory and in part because it was the first battle won by the use of the longbow - a weapon developed by the English which enabled them to dominate the European battlefields for the rest of the century.īernard Cornwell’s Azincourt is a vivid, breathtaking and meticulously well-researched account of this momentous battle and its aftermath.
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