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Azincourt by Cornwell, Bernard is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Azincourt about?

Bernard Cornwell has been thinking about this subject for years. He has long wanted to write a book about a single battle, the events that lead up to it, the actual days in the battle and the aftermath from multiple viewpoints. Agincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, on St Crispin?s Day, is one of the 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. This was a weapon developed in this form only by the English - parishes were forced to train boys from as young as eight daily - and enabled them to dominate the European battlefields for the rest of the century. Lively historical characters abound on all sides but in Bernard Cornwell?s hands the fictional characters, horsemen, archers, nobles, peasants are authentic and vivid, and the hour by hour view of the battle is dramatic and gripping.

Who reads Azincourt?

Author

Cornwell, Bernard

Publisher

HarperCollinsPublishers; HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007304462

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

4.11 / 5 (14,406 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14