Agincourt - Christopher Hibbert
Category: Political
Narrator: Patrick Tully
Tags: Political, History, Military, Adults
Length: 4hrs 39min Recorded Books, 1990, Agincourt is a concise history of one of the most extraordinary battles in history., Hibbert is yet another English historian writing from a predominately English perspective about the Hundred Years War - in this case, about the Agincourt campaign including the siege of Harfleur which dominates a large part of the book., It gives you a picture of the knights in their heavy armor, falling over one another in the battle, and how long the lining up of the formations must have taken. The author also does a great job of pointing out that fighting is what men did then, as a way of showing their abilities, everything else was just waiting until the next battle., This is a quick read, the writing is crisp and you get a real sense of what things were like back in 1415. You also get a good rendering of the events leading up to this curious battle. The outcome of the battle was a surprise, to be sure, but the explanation goes a long way toward making it un
