Agincourt : the fight for France /

On 25th October 1415, on a French hillside near the village of Agincourt, four men sheltered from the rain and prepared for battle. All four were English knights ancestors of Sir Ranulph Fiennes and part of the army of England's King Henry V. Across the valley, four sons of the French arm of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fiennes, Ranulph, Sir, 1944- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Pegasus Books, 2015.
Edition:	First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Fiennes, Ranulph, > Sir, > 1944- > Family. Agincourt, Battle of, Agincourt, France, 1415. Great Britain > History > Henry V, 1413-1422. France > History > Charles VI, 1380-1422. Fiennes, Ranulph, > Sir, > 1944- Agincourt, Battle of (France : 1415) Families. France. France > Agincourt. Great Britain. 1380 - 1422 History.

Table of Contents:

The French Connection
The rise and rise of Eustace de Fiennes
Geoffrey de Mandeville and other fickle Fienneses
Intermarriage, bribery, temerity and indecision
Friends and Lovers
Wool, wine and war
The Buying of Broughton
So much Christian blood spilled
When men of good breeding think nothing of killing
Fair stood the wind for France
The actions of the tiger
Fiennes to the fore
A family at war
A Vaste Multitude Yielded Up in Death
La Mort de Fiennes
Another Fiennes loses his head for losing the War.