Agincourt - Christopher Hibbert Audiobook

Written by Christopher Hibbert
Read by Patrick Tully
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 4hrs 39min
Recorded Books, 1990

Agincourt is a concise history of one of the most extraordinary battles in history.

Hibbert is yet another English historian writing from a predominately English perspective about the Hundred Years War - in this case, about the Agincourt campaign including the siege of Harfleur which dominates a large part of the book.

It gives you a picture of the knights in their heavy armor, falling over one another in the battle, and how long the “lining up” of the formations must have taken. The author also does a great job of pointing out that fighting is what men did then, as a way of showing their abilities, everything else was just waiting until the next battle.

This is a quick read, the writing is crisp and you get a real sense of what things were like back in 1415. You also get a good rendering of the events leading up to this curious battle. The outcome of the battle was a surprise, to be sure, but the explanation goes a long way toward making it understandable.

A note about the numbering and titles of this book. It appears that the title and preview text of the next chapter ENDS the previous chapter so I had to decided where to put it. However the title of Chapter 1 IS Prologue. I hope you are not as confused as I was before I found an ebook copy and put everything where the author put it .