Agincourt 1415: The Archers' Story ebook

by Anne Curry

She is the advisor to the battle of Agincourt battlefield centre in Picardy and was historical consultant for the recent ITV documentary of the battle in the Battlefield Detectives series

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Her other books include Agincourt: A New History, The Battle of Agincourt: Sources & Interpretations and The Hundred Years War. Professor Curry is a member of the Societe de L'Histoire de France and of the Royal Historical Society. She lives in Reading. Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter.

The Battle of Agincourt: Sources and Interpretations. The Boydell Press (UK). Curry, Anne, (with Robert Hardy) (2006) Agincourt 1415: The Archers' Story. ISBN 978-0-85115-802-0. Curry, Anne (2003) The Hundred Years' War (British History in Perspective series). ISBN 978-0-333-92435-8. Curry, Anne (2005) The Parliament rolls of Medieval England 1275-1504. Boydell & Brewer (UK). Agincourt: A New History.

Items related to Agincourt 1415: The Archers' Story . Curry, Anne Agincourt 1415: The Archers' Story. ISBN 13: 9780752445663. Agincourt 1415: The Archers' Story. She is the advisor to the battle of Agincourt battlefield centre in Picardy and was historical consultant for the recent ITV documentary of the battle in the Battlefield Detectives series. Her other books includeAgincourt: A New History, The Battle of Agincourt: Sources & Interpretations andThe Hundred Years War.

Sir Thomas, an experienced warrior with military experience dating back 40 years is known for his brief but pivotal appearances in Shakespeare's Henry V, where he is correctly portrayed as an elderly, white haired veteran.

1415 Agincourt - Anne Curry. It deliberately avoids the great Tudor histories of Edward Hall and Raphael Holinshed, which formed the basis of many older works and popular views of the battle, not least because of the inspiration that they gave Shakespeare.

She begins by piecing together what actually happened when Henry V led a smallish English army against a large French one in an expansionist bid to seize France. Curry, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, also debunks myths such as the one about the V sign originating as a gesture of defiance at Agincourt when English bowmen survived to taunt the French who’d vowed to cut off the crucial three right-hand fingers of any archer they caught – nice story but not true.

She is the advisor to the battle of Agincourt battlefield centre in Picardy and was historical consultant for the recent ITV documentary of the battle in the Battlefield Detectives series. For anyone interested in the battle of Azincourt, this is most definitly a must.

For many commentators then and now, it was the English archers who won the day for Henry V. This lavishly illustrated history re-tells the story of the battle and Henry V's Normandy campaign from the perspective of the commander of the English archers, Sir Thomas Erpingham. Sir Thomas, an experienced warrior with military experience dating back 40 years is known for his brief but pivotal appearances in Shakespeare's Henry V, where he is correctly portrayed as an elderly, white haired veteran. At 57 he was one of the oldest there and a close personal confident of the King. But what was his background? How did he command his archers to such a place in history? And what role did the longbow and battlefield tactics play in the final analysis of victory?