I had been sleeping since about ten-thirty and needed to finish Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell, of Rifleman Sharpe fame. I left Rifleman Sharpe when he kept going back to India - although all of those stories are great for flying long distances. The current Saxon Tales are great. I have finished this book, I like it and recommend it especially to get the feel of the times, the long bow, and the battle. The author recommends Judith Barker's Agincourt as a History, which gives me something to go read in the future, not that I am studying war any more. I did like Cornwell's filling in of historical detail after the novel is finished, and expounding on the English yeomen and the longbow as their weapon. Required weapons among the commoners, imagine that,
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I'll add it to the list! THanks!
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