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Agincourt / Anne Curry.
By: Curry, Anne [author.]
.Series: Great battles (Oxford University Press): Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: xvi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199681013.Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle of, Agincourt, France, 1415 | Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 -- Campaigns -- France | Military art and science -- Europe -- History -- 15th century | France -- History, Military -- 1328-1589 | Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1066-1485DDC classification: 944.025 Summary: Agincourt (1415) is an exceptionally famous battle, one that has generated a huge and enduring cultural legacy in the six hundred years since it was fought. [...] Written by the world's leading expert on the battle, this book shows just why it has occupied such a key place in English identity and history in the six centuries since it was fought, exploring a cultural legacy that stretches from bowmen to Beatles, via Shakespeare, Dickens, and the First World War. Anne Curry first sets the scene, illuminating how and why the battle was fought, as well as its significance in the wider history of the Hundred Years War.
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 944.025 CUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 011340 |
Agincourt (1415) is an exceptionally famous battle, one that has generated a huge and enduring cultural legacy in the six hundred years since it was fought. [...] Written by the world's leading expert on the battle, this book shows just why it has occupied such a key place in English identity and history in the six centuries since it was fought, exploring a cultural legacy that stretches from bowmen to Beatles, via Shakespeare, Dickens, and the First World War. Anne Curry first sets the scene, illuminating how and why the battle was fought, as well as its significance in the wider history of the Hundred Years War.