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A Times, BBC History Magazine and Daily Mail Book of the Year
The UK-s bestselling medieval historian brings unforgettably to life the astonishing rise of Henry V, who survived rebellion, a near-fatal arrow wound and a lengthy and precarious princely apprenticeship to become England-s greatest warrior king.
''A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.'' Observer
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond.
The victor of Agincourt was a model king for his successors. Shakespeare-s version of Henry V saw his youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship, and in the dark days of World War II, Henry-s victories in France were recounted in British propaganda. Churchill called Henry -a gleam of splendour in the da
