THE LAST HUNDRED YARDS
Agincourt: A New History
2005
NON-FICTIONThe definitive modern account of Agincourt, drawing on English and French sources to reconstruct the battle and debunk centuries of myth.
Azincourt
2008
FICTIONCornwell's masterful novel follows an English archer through the brutal Agincourt campaign — mud, terror, and the long-bow's devastating power.
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England
2005
NON-FICTIONThe definitive modern account of the Battle of Agincourt, combining close reading of contemporary sources with analysis of the armies, terrain, and tactics that produced Henry V's famous victory.
Agincourt
2009
FICTION"The greatest writer of historical adventures today" (Washington Post) tackles his richest, most thrilling subject yet—the heroic tale of Agincourt. Young Nicholas Hook is dogged by a cursed past—haun...
Three Great English Victories: A 3-book Collection of Harlequin, 1356 and Azincourt
2015
FICTIONOn the eve of the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Azincourt comes three classic battle books of The Hundred Years War by the bestselling master of historical fiction, Bernard Cornwell, in one three...
Shadow on the White House
1993
NON-FICTIONHarry Truman's administration began searching for an American response to the clash in Indochina between Frech colonialism and Vietminh communism in 1945. Thirty years and five administrations later, ...
The Prince
1515
MILITARY HISTORYThe Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction...
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
2007
MEMOIRFirst-person account of urban combat in Fallujah in November 2004 by a decorated Army staff sergeant. The most visceral account of close-quarters combat in the Iraq War.
The Face of Battle
1976
NON-FICTIONLandmark study examining three battles — Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme — from the perspective of the ordinary soldier, asking what combat is actually like for those who must endure it.
Slapton Sands
2004
NON-FICTIONIt's 1976 and American student Alice Bourne has come to Slapton Sands on the south Devon coast to research an event that took place 32 years earlier, a catastrophe which claimed the lives of almost 1,...
Lee Takes Command
1984
NON-FICTIONWhen General Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate forces defending Richmond in June of 1862, he was famous yet little known. How Lee's background and training prepared him for his supreme tri...
Clara Barton's Civil War
2018
NON-FICTIONThrough Battle Dispatches, Letters, and Other Records, Discovering the Wartime Service of America's Most Famous Nurse "I always tried to succor the wounded until medical aid and supplies could come up...
Shadows in the Fire
2015
NON-FICTIONWise beyond her years, Miss Francine is a twelve-year-old slave girl in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. She endures the hardships of bondage as well as the odd...
Legacy of Discord
2002
NON-FICTIONProbing interviews with leading participants in, and critical observers of, the Vietnam War
The Blood of Flowers
2007
FICTIONA dazzling debut novel about a young woman in 17th-century Persia whose gift as a rug designer transforms her life.
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
1984
NON-FICTIONA landmark work that recounts the Crusades entirely from the perspective of the Arab chroniclers who lived through them.
