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Agincourt
- Narrated by: Charles Keating
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
Agincourt is classic Cornwell...[with] attention to historical detail, well-paced action, and descriptive writing that is a pleasure to read." (Boston Globe)
Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times best-selling "reigning king of historical fiction" (USA Today), tackles his most thrilling, rich, and enthralling subject yet - the heroic tale of Agincourt. The epic battle immortalized by William Shakespeare in his classic Henry V is the background for this breathtaking tale of heroism, love, devotion, and duty from the legendary author of the Richard Sharpe novels and the Saxon Tales. This extraordinary adventure will captivate from minute one, proving once again and most powerfully, as author Lee Child attests, that "nobody in the world does this stuff better than Cornwell."
Critic reviews
"Nobody in the world does this stuff better than Cornwell. (Lee Child, author of Nothing to Lose)
"Readers who haven't discovered Bernard Cornwell don't know what they are missing....He may well be the best historical novelist writing today -- and Agincourt may well be his best novel yet. (Vince Flynn, author of Extreme Measures)
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- Dave & Jenny
- 26-06-19
Get rid of that music!!!!
Good story; good performance. But why on earth have you put loud music over the narrator at the beginning of some chapters? It's so annoying.
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- B. Strutton
- 07-10-19
annoying music over start of chapters
like story thou bit wish I could turn off the music where it appears
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- Chris Underhill
- 23-02-19
A battle royal!
The story of Nicholas Hook is in many ways similar to that of Thomas of Hookton....in this case carrying both a powerful story of love across the barriers of English and French. It is also an interesting story of medival patronage...both at village and battle troop level. Ultimately it is a beautifully described battle scene which takes its time building slowly and carefully to the extraordinary end. Agincourt is a fine well told story.
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- JP EWART
- 18-09-20
A surprise
I'd listened to Waterloo, dry but I'm a geek an it was a decent listen. I was expecting Agincourt to be more of the same, a breakdown of tactics, historical context and the odd detail that was fascinating. A novel I wasn't expecting. Stuck in the car I listened on and really enjoyed it. Nicholas Hook a simple Archer based on the Sharpe mould gets the girl, fights off Frenchmen and an all round good egg.
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- MIke
- 29-01-20
Great story- 2 issues
The narrator can literally only do 2 voices. EVERYONE sounds the same!
The music isn’t needed.
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- Mike
- 15-09-19
A solid romp, slightly marred by annoying music
Story: A decent narrative. Bernard Cornwell excels at describing the action and the book is at its finest when we're in the heat of battle. I found most of the characters quite one-dimensional and found myself not particularly interested in any of their individual outcomes, but I still enjoyed the book for its decent portrayal of the overall campaign and excellent action sequences.
Performance: Well-narrated on the whole. I agree about a previous reviewer who said it would've been nice if the characters' voices had been a little more varied, but it was fine for the most part. The main reason for only 3 stars is the incredibly annoying, distracting and intrusive music that occasionally blasts out at various intervals. It was infrequent enough not to ruin the audiobook, but it was totally unnecessary and when it did pop up I found it distracting while trying to listen to the narration. Would go up to 4 stars without the music.
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- susan fletcher
- 13-07-20
A perfectly readable historic tale.
This is another perfectly acceptable novel by Cornwell.
It's not going to set the literary world ablaze, but for a bit of light bedtime reading, it's great.
(The only really annoying aspect of this edition is the music. It's awful! This is a book, not a radio programme. No music is needed - and certainly not tinny, synthesised music.)
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- Laurent duval
- 12-11-19
Very enjoyable listen
I'd agree with the other reviews that are questioning why the music is in there. its not very good and doesn't really fit with the story. just sort of comes out of nowhere.
Other than that its an excellent listen with a very good narrator
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- Cuperman
- 27-07-19
good
good story, good characters with acceptable narration, but annoying musical background every now and then.
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- Amazon customer
- 01-02-20
Boring and repetitive
Not much storytelling or building of the characters nor much interesting historical information. instead, it was a rather tedious narration of injuries inflicted during the battles. I was so bored with the narrative concernig dented helmets and knives plunged into eye sockets. a very unsatisfactory read.
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