{"id":1278,"date":"2014-07-24T14:40:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2014-07-24T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T18:40:54","slug":"book-review-agincourt-by-bernard-cornwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/3276012-azincourt\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1327151016m\/3276012.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Azincourt\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/3276012-azincourt\">Azincourt<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/12542.Bernard_Cornwell\">Bernard Cornwell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1005679303\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am late to the Bernard Cornwell fan club (many historical fiction fans have long since discovered him), but I am thrilled to have finally read one of his books, which has been on my to-be-read pile for much too long. &#8220;Azincourt&#8221; or &#8220;Agincourt&#8221; (the English name of the battle) describes the march towards this fateful battle that made Henry V&#8217;s reputation through the eyes of an archer in Henry V&#8217;s army. This is not the rousing, patriotic, lyrical battle of Shakespeare&#8217;s play. This is a gritty, violent and bloody description of life and warfare in the trenches. No less eloquent than Shakespeare in its way but with all the romanticism taken out.<br \/>\n&#8220;Agincourt&#8221; is not only a fascinating book on the battle itself, but the author takes the time and does the research regarding the history and use of the longbow, the weapon that made such a crucial difference not only at Agincourt but in other pivotal battles as well. And while the characters aren&#8217;t always likeable, they are realistic and interesting and three dimensional.<br \/>\nFor those who think historical fiction is written mainly for women (and it often is), this is a very &#8220;male&#8221; historical fiction book. The book focuses much less on character and romance (although both exist) and more on battle and action. I enjoyed it immensely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am late to the Bernard Cornwell fan club (many historical fiction fans have long since discovered him), but I am thrilled to have finally read one of his books, which has been on my to-be-read pile for much too long. &#8220;Azincourt&#8221; or &#8220;Agincourt&#8221; (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[221,222,220,336,219],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-agincourt","tag-azincourt","tag-bernard-cornwell","tag-books","tag-historical-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-kC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}