The Warrior King and the Invasion of France: Henry V, Agincourt, and the Campaign that Shaped Medieval England
10 best books like The Warrior King and the Invasion of France: Henry V, Agincourt, and the Campaign that Shaped Medieval England (Desmond Seward): The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217, The Normans: From Raiders to Kings, Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar, The Great Political Theories, Volume 2, The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches, Destiny in the Desert: The Story Behind El Alamein - the Battle That Turned the Tide, Waterloo: The Aftermath, English History 1914-45, The Hundred Years War: A People's History, William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England
| Author | Richard Brooks |
| ISBN | 1849085501 |
This is the fascinating story: William Marshal who negotiated the brutal realities of medieval warfare and the conflicting demands of chivalric ideals, and who against the odds defeated the joint French and rebel forces in arguably the most important battle in mideeval English history - overshadowing...
"Lars Brownworth’s 'The Normans' is like a gallop through the Middle Ages on a fast warhorse. It is rare to find an author who takes on a subject so broad and so complex, while delivering a book that is both fast-paced and readable."
Bill Yenne, author of Julius Caesar: Lessons in Leadership...
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0060753625 |
In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth-century world-dominating empire. Adam Nicolson's...
| Author | Michael Curtis |
| ISBN | 0380012359 |
The philosophy of politics
This carefully selected compilation of the significant writings of the great political philosophers, scientists, and thinkers will be an invaluable guide to the general reader as well as to the serious student of history, political science, and government....
| Author | Brian MacArthur |
| ISBN | 0140176195 |
Great leaders of history have sought to take their followers to the promised land through the uplifting power of speech. Editor Brian MacArthur surveys the greatest oratory past and present. From Moses to Abraham Lincoln, he shows that great speeches can be placed alongside the work of artists, poets,...
| Author | Jonathan Dimbleby |
| ISBN | 1846684447 |
This is a unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed...It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'it is not the end nor is it the beginning of...
| Author | Paul O'Keeffe |
| ISBN | 1468311301 |
In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared,...
| Author | A.J.P. Taylor |
| ISBN | 0192801406 |
Beginning on August 4, 1914, the day Britain entered the "Great War," this book guides us through three decades of unparalleled upheaval and change in Britain that eventually lead to the defeat of Japan in 1945--a momentous event that marked the end of the Second World War. Twin themes of international...
The Hundred Years War: A People's History
| Author | David Green |
| ISBN | 0300134517 |
The Hundred Years War (1337–1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways...
William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England
| Author | David C. Douglas |
| ISBN | 0520003500 |
In William the Conqueror, Professor Douglas analyzes the causes and the true character of the Norman impact upon England in the eleventh century. The work is both a study of Anglo-Norman history and a biography of a man whose personal career was spectacular, and as reviewers have remarked, it is distinguished...
| Author | Wilfred Lewis Warren |
| ISBN | 0520034945 |
Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgments ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists,...
Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind England’s greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been effectively airbrushed from history; yet she had one of the most fascinating lives of any of England’s queens. Her childhood was spent in the centre of the Spanish reconquest and was dominated...
King John and the Road to Magna Carta
| Author | Stephen Church |
| ISBN | 0465092993 |
King John doesn’t have the best reputation. He is known as the “Bad King”…The bad seed as opposed to his brother, Richard the Lionheart. So ‘bad’ that his actions pushed his subjects and barons to compose the Magna Carta—the predecessor of many modern-day constitutions (so perhaps...
England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381
| Author | Juliet Barker |
| ISBN | 1408703351 |
Written with the fluency readers have come to expect from Juliet Barker, 1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and its background, and paints on a broad canvas a picture of English life in medieval times. Skeptical of contemporary chroniclers'...
| Author | Jonathan Sumption |
| ISBN | 0571138977 |
The Hundred Years War was a vicious, costly, and, most dramatically, drawn out struggle that laid the framework for the national identities of both England and France into the modern era. The first twenty years of the war were positive for the English, by any account. They already held the South of France,...
| Author | David Bates |
| ISBN | 0752419803 |
C’est une monumentale biographie qui paraît chez Flammarion, dans la bien-nommée collection Grandes biographies. Parue pour la première fois en 2016 chez Yale University Press, elle a exigé à son auteur, David Bates, pas moins de cinquante ans de travail. Cinquante ans tout d’abord depuis...
Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint
| Author | Donald Spoto |
| ISBN | 0060815175 |
During the tumultuous Hundred Years' War between England and France, a teenage peasant girl followed her heart and helped save a nation. A vision from God, received in her parents' garden, instructed her to take up arms and help restore the kingdom of France. Without consulting her family, Joan left...
| Author | Ralph V. Turner |
| ISBN | 0300119119 |
Eleanor of Aquitaine’s extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two sons who rose to take the English throne—Richard...
| Author | Paul Murray Kendall |
| ISBN | 1842125753 |
Kendall delivers another of his quite excellent character portraits of the Wars of the Roses. This was a fairly even-handed treatment of a very colorful character, and therefore more in line with the author's biography of Louis XI than his decidedly partisan coloring of Richard III (not that I minded...
Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagents, knight extraordinaire, the flower of chivalry. A marvel of historical reconstruction, William Marshal is based on a biographical...
| Author | David Arscott Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0195220005 |
The years from 1066-the Norman conquest of England-to 1284-the English conquest of Wales--were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In this comprehensive synthesis canvassing the peoples, economies, religion, languages, and political leadership of medieval Britain, David Carpenter weaves...
| Author | Peter Hunter Blair |
| ISBN | 0393003612 |
By the time of Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 55 B.C., migratory movements had established close ties of kinship and common interest between the peoples who lived in Gaul and some of the inhabitants of Britain. Because the source material is so meager for much of early British history, Mr. Blair...
The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881
| Author | Pierre Berton |
| ISBN | 0385658400 |
In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old — it's population well below the 4 million mark — determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision — bold to the point of recklessness — was to change the lives of every man, woman and...
| Author | Miri Rubin |
| ISBN | 0140148256 |
There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V, the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary...
