Then there was the arrow sound, the sigh of air over feathers, but multiplied, so that it was like the rushing of a wind. "The first sound was the bowstrings, the snap of five thousand hemp cords being tightened by stressed yew, and that sound was like the devil's harpstrings being plucked. The constant pitch of suspense in this novel comes partly from the family feud, which follows Hook across the Channel, as well as from his experiences as an archer in Henry V's army. Nicholas Hook is an English shepherd's son, trained to the bow from childhood, embroiled from birth in a vendetta against the family responsible for his grandfather's murder. Agincourt is a masterpiece of war fiction, taking readers as close to the experience of medieval warfare as any of us would probably ever want to come.
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