Allan Massie

Another near run thing

The battle of Agincourt — a high point of Cursed Kings, the penultimate volume of Jonathan Sumption’s history of the Hundred Years War — was a great English victory snatched from the jaws of defeat

issue 29 August 2015

  • Cursed Kings: The Hundred Years War, IV

    Jonathan Sumption

    Faber, pp. 909

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