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Battle of Agincourt      

Hastings 1066 

The most famous battle in English history, Hastings was the culmination of one of the medieval world's most daring military expeditions - and a truly decisive battle. It marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England, winning the land hungry Normans a new kingdom, and ensuring that Britain's destiny lay in Western Europe rather than with Scandinavia. The author, Chris Gravett, of the Royal Armouries at the Tower of London, has written several titles in the Osprey Men-at -arms series.

Book price £12.99. Book serial number Osprey 13.

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Agincourt 1415

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Immortalized by Shakespeare, Agincourt is an epic of courage and hard fighting. Brought to bay after the long siege of Harfleur, Henry V's army was soaked, starving and riddled with disease, and facing a French army at odds of more than 3 to 1. How the English beat off their attackers and slaughtered the flower of French nobility is vividly described in this volume. Matthew Bennett is a lecturer at the RMA Sandhurst and a specialist in medieval military history.

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The Crusades by Robert Payne

In this masterly work, Robert Payne brings to life the Crusades that founded vast kingdoms in Palestine nearly one thousand years ago. This is the story of battles and valour, greed and piety, folly and baseness that mark the first major clash of Christianity and Islam.

Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades by John J Robinson

Over the past thousand years, the bloodiest game of king-of-the-castle has been for supremacy on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon. This book recounts the stirring saga of the Knights Templar, the Christian warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Mount in the aftermath of the butchery of the First Crusade. Recruited to a life of poverty, chastity and obedience intended to lead only to martyrdom on the battlefield, they were totally dedicated to the pious paradox that the wholesale slaughter of non-believers would earn the gratitude of the Prince of Peace.

The Templars amassed great wealth, which they used to finance their two hundred years of war against Muslims on the desert, in the mountains, and up the broad sweep of the Nile valley. The Templars reward for those two centuries of military martyrdom was to be arrested by the pope and king, tortured by the Inquisition, and finally decreed out of existence. But their legend and legacy just would not die.

In telling the incredible story of the Knights Templar, the author's clear explanation of the cultural and religious differences among the Templars' enemies and friends in the Middle East gives fresh understanding of the people who populate this restless region. Here are the Sunnis and the Shiites, the Kurds and Armenians, the Arabs and Turks, who figure so prominently in today's headlines. The similarity of their antagonisms today and those of eight hundred years ago are often so striking as to be eerie. Dungeon, Fire and Sword is a brilliant work of narrative history that can be read as an adventure story, a morality play, or a lesson in the politics of warfare.

Book serial number BK42. Price £19.99. Hard back with 494 pages.

Armies of the Crusades by Terence Wise & G A Embleton

Book price £8.99. Book serial number Osprey MA75

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Medieval European Armies by Terence Wise and Gerald Embleton 

Book price £8.99. Book serial number Osprey MA50

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Henry VIII's Army by Paul Cornish & Angus McBride

Book price £8.99. Book serial number Osprey MA191.

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Henry V and the Conquest of France 1416-53 by Paul Knight & Graham Turner

Book price £8.99. Book serial number Osprey MA317.

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