Agincourt
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- 249,00 kr
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- 249,00 kr
Udgiverens beskrivelse
Slaget ved Agincourt i 1415 er et av verdenshistoriens mest berømte, og er udødeliggjort i Shakespeares skuespill Henrik V.
Den engelske hæren vant over en fransk hær som var seks ganger større enn den. Kong Henry V var urokkelig i troen på at Gud var på hans side og nektet å gjøre retrett selv når all fornuft tilsa det. Heltene var de engelske langbuemennene, selve ryggraden i Henrik Vs hær og hans hemmelige våpen.
I Agincourt følger vi Nicholas Hook, en bueskytter som ofte befant seg i trøbbel hjemme i England, men som ble en av Henry Vs beste krigere.
Bernard Cornwell kalles mesteren av historiske romaner, med mer enn 20 millioner solgte bøker.
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A literary veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and the U.S. Civil War, Cornwell returns to the Hundred Years War era in this action-packed if slightly melodramatic epic about King Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Nicholas Hook, an English forester, is on the run after interfering with a rapist priest and ends up a mercenary defender at Soissons, where he saves a young and beautiful novitiate, Melisande. With his French prize in tow, he returns to England and signs on with Henry's army as an archer. Back on French soil, he fights and slogs his way to Agincourt, where 6,000 Englishmen confront 30,000 French soldiers. Hearing the voice of St. Crispinian whispering to him in times of personal crisis, Hook has his hands full with the French and defending himself from the vengeance-seeking rapist priest and Melisande's father. The crisply rendered battle scenes are adrenaline rushes of blood, thunder and clashing swords that transport the reader back to the early 15th century. Unfortunately, Hook's Hollywood-ready construction undercuts the "you are there" feeling of Cornwell's otherwise vivid recreation of Henry V's greatest military triumph.
