Agincourt is a stunning battle in the Earth's history of battles.
I cannot even explain it properly.

Each time I come across the battle, read something about the battle, happen upon a television show about the battle, I am stunned and shake my head.
Agincourt is undefinable except for what it is.
Agincourt.

Bernard Cornwell is a fantastic writer.
He wraps this battle into a campaign of Henry V into France in his quest to then capture the French throne.

Nick Hook is an outlaw English archer in the service of Henry.
Hook finds begins to find himself in the middle of the slogging English campaign through France.
Hook finds himself in the midst of long, drawn out marches, arduous sieges, deplorable troop conditions, vicious battles, bloody and muddy, yelling skirmishes.

Yet the real star of the book is Cornwell who weaves it all together in vivid place and time as the English army moves forward into France and keeps you, the reader, on horseback next to young Hook.

This is a book to read - and not put down.
The book will make you hold your breath, gasp at the brutality of the skirmishes and shake your head that men really, actually and truly lived and died through all of that.

The book will make you always remember the English longbow.
And never forget Agincourt.