Agincourt
A Novel

It was hard for me to not give this book 5 stars, but to be real, this book did not pull me in as much as some of his other books. The story is great, the descriptions of battles and weaponry is superb. I just wasn't as attached to the characters, but it didn't ruin it. Great listen though, good narration.

Warning: If you listen to this book while driving you will repeatedly find yourself sitting in your car at your destination unable to turn it off until you 'find out what happens next'. This is Medieval historical fiction at its most exciting and compelling. Charles Keating reads it very well, but his aging, gravelly voice is ill suited to the young men and all women in this story. But his voice is absolutely perfect for the character of Sir John Cornwell, the hero's mentor and one of the most delightful characters in all of this author's books. I promise that you will get thoroughly caught up in this extraordinary and historically accurate story.

While I like the history of the battle, the story of the main character didnt catch my interest.

The battle of Agincourt sits alongside Trafalgar, Waterloo, and Hastings in the annals of significant battles in Anglo-French rivalry. Maybe not so much in strategic significance, but due to the fact the English were so heavily outnumbered. Cornwell settled on the numbers (as records vary) of 6,000......more

Bernard Cornwell must be the most obsessive novelist of English military history that lives (or maybe that ever lived). While this may seem a boring or potentially monochromatic palette, in his hands it is an amazing canvas. Here he deals with the battle that made Henry V the stuff of legends. Thoug......more

A very well told story of the advance of Henry V on France, culminating with the battle of Agincourt. Our protagonist is Nicolas Hook, a fictional Welsh bastard of a minor Lord, who is a Forester and an archer. After hitting a priest, he becomes an outlaw and joins a mercenary company, headed to the......more

The tale of the battle of Agincourt told through the eyes of an archer, Nicholas Hooks. Cornwell is a master of captured the drama of history from different perspective and making the story come alive. And in that, he's very successful here. It's clear he's done his research and knows his history. He......more

The old chroniclers of war referred to the list of deaths in battles as the butchers bill and it is an apt description of Azincourt. The archers like Nick Hook were the main weapons of mass destruction but most of the killing was done with poleaxes and swords. Bernard Cornwell told the story through......more