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I don't know whether any of you guys read novels, but I just started reading one with the above title, by Bernard Cornwell. Excellent read with lots about archery back then. Cornwell has written a boatload of novels, some set in the time of King Alfred (the Great), some in Arthurian times, Wellington etc. etc.
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He is one of my favorite. I've read most everything he's written.
 
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I am a (British) history freak but don't normally read novels, so I only recently found out about this guy. I picked up Agincourt yesterday and am half way through it already! I have trouble putting it down! It is a great read.
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His grail series is about an English archer during the hundred years war and goes into the English long bow quite extensively. Cromwell does his research and writes great historical fiction. If you like archery and are an anglophile you will love his grail series.
 
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I am currently part way through "Excalibur" as well, but I put it down as Agincourt was more exciting.
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Another great read is "The Longbow" by Robert Hardy.Loaded with history/accounts of the longbow in battle- Agincout,etc and much more.Some might know him from the "All Creatures Great and Small" TV series.He played Siegfried Cool.
 
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I have Agincourt in Audio book format..

Plugging the IPod in and kicking back, listening to this tale of English history unfold is bloody brilliant.

This is really a great story, the history of the bow is fascinating - the Brits really dished it out to the French in this battle.


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Bernie, Cornwell refers to Hardy's book but I could not find it in the local library. Is it worth buying?
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Absolutely!Well if you're as big a fan of the longbow as I am anyway.
 
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Has anybody read the follow up book to agincourt? I can't remember the name but i saw it at the bookstore the other day.

Also a good read is his Richard Sharpe series. It's about an English rifleman in the Napoleonic wars.
 
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DEW, I think that his latest book is "The Burning Land" which is the latest in his series dealing with King Alfred (the Great). He was interviewed not long ago on NPR.
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Great books. I've read all of the Holy Grail series, Sharpe books, and the viking books. Bernard Cornwell is one of my favorite authors.


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I definitely see no reason to buy this book.

The real name of the place is aZincourt.

Moreover, Agincourt doesn't ring right in french, Agin and Vagin(a) have similar pronounciation.

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JB, Cornwell does point out that the French call the scene of one of their major defeats, AZincourt. He missed the anatomical references however!
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i have been told that the French words for the rabbit and penis are likewise very similar. anyway, Cornwell's books sound like great reads. my favorite genre has always been historical novels and these suggestions give me a new direction. thanks.


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Check out any of his series, you won't be disappointed.
 
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jdollar, go to any library and you will find probably 2 dozen of his books. As I mentioned in my post above, he has several different series, and within each series there is an order to the books. While each book is self contained, it would probably be more enjoyable to read them in (historical) order.
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no discussion, Azincourt was clearly a french defeat. In fact the archers weren't popular in France and little developped or used.
May be I am wrong but I learnt that the French were mostly using crossbows that are shooting too slowly compared to the English bows?????

You're right about rabbit= lapin la pine= the dick.
I'll have a look at this book. Archery knows no boundariesz.


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At Crecy, the French employed Genoese crossbowmen as mercenaries, but still lost. (Later, in England, the crossbow became more popular). The French looked down on the archers as not being chivalrous. At Agincourt, the French did have crossbowmen, but not in the numbers that the English had, and they were not deployed effectively.
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Last night on PBS TV they showed a movie "Sharpe's Challenge" that was after Waterloo but set in India! Excellent movie with a less than glamorous take on the British Army, as well as it's treatment of the Sepoys. Thanks for the tip (whoever recommended the Richard Sharpe series)!
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The BBC ran a TV series based on the sharp novels that was fairly good it stared Sean Bean as Richard Sharp.
 
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Wetdog, a friend of mine recently visited from England (IOM actually) and he told me about the series. I suspect that this may have been one of them. I will have to see if they are available on DVD. I have not read any of the Sharp series but he encouraged me to read them.
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