Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King
By Michael Livingston
Osprey £20
The tale is a familiar one – of a beleaguered and outnumbered English army, led by the heroic Henry V, trouncing the ‘flower of French chivalry’ through bulldog tenacity and withering volleys of longbow arrows.
Shakespeare used this, the ultimate victory-against-the-odds, as the backbone of his Winston Churchill encouraged Laurence Olivier to make a stirring film of the same, as a morale-booster in the Second World War. It was filmed during the months that saw D-Day
