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Many arrows come to one mark in `Agincourt'
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BOOK REVIEW
AGINCOURT
By Bernard Cornwell
Harper, 451 pp., $27.99
There is a breath-arresting moment in Laurence Olivier's wartime
film version of Shakespeare's "Henry V" when a swarm of arrows is
released from the longbows of the English archers to arc into the
advancing French nobility.
The battle of Agincourt raged for several more hours, but in that
opening moment, the archers had all but sealed an English victory,
turning the soggy plain in northern France into a killing field.
And thus rightly, Bernard Cornwell has chosen to build his
rousing novel "Agincourt" around one of those archers ...
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