Henry V: The cautious conquerer - Hardcover
Kirkus Review This firmly researched account of the career of Henry V of England brings to ground not only Shakespeare's (and Olivier's) gallant Prince Hal but also the historical view of Henry as an intemperate conqueror. Henry was ""astute, controlled, and methodical"" working well within the accepted concept of a late medieval monarch. By the time he was sixteen, he had experienced a full range of military activity and had witnessed the ruin and death of his childhood mentor Richard II and the defection of his model, Henry Percy (Hotspur)--the author feels that the latter could account for Henry's hardness and ""emotional isolation."" After successfully dealing with the Lollard conspiracy (more political than religious) and other domestic threats, inherited from his father Henry IV, the king planned intervention in France, which he shrewdly recognized as fatally divided. Using a policy of negotiation and threat, he set up his ""just war""--to the medieval mind a legal rather than moral concept. The author covers those infamous battles--Shrewsbury, Harfleur, Agincourt, etc.--and Henry's power plays manipulating the Burgundians, Armagnacs and France's weak, mad king. So Henry gained two crowns and died at thirty-five, leaving an infant son who was to lose both. A competent, scholarly book about a clever, tough and efficient king seen in the cold light of day--but it will not dull the legendary gleam of that ""little touch of Harry in the night.
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0812818695
- ISBN 13 9780812818697
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages219
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. Dust jacket good but with chipping at upper and bottom edges; orange boards and and brown cloth near binding fine; binding sound; pages and plates near fine. 219 pages; 1 lb. 10 oz. shipping. Biography of the victor of Agincourt (1415). Size: 9.4 X 6.4 X 0.9 0.0. Book. Seller Inventory # 1.2.2.02
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Book Description Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. 219pp. Corners & ends of spine rubbed; owner name embossed title page. Dj extremities chipped & have tape-repaired tears. Illus.; endnotes; biblio.; index. Seller Inventory # 245978
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Book Description 1st American Edition. Hardbound 8vo (9.5 inches tall) 219 pages. Notes, bibliography, index. Description: Includes one short section of black and white illustrations. The publisher's blurb reads: ''This book sets the record straight, demonstrates convincingly that Henry V was a commander, and a king, who never took unnecessary risks. He fought at Agincourt, although heavily outnumbered, because the alternative was total abandonment of his long-term plans. A man without glamour, he was a master of tactics and strategy. Henry's career brought manifold successes. Though he spent less than a quarter of his nine years' reign in England, his influence was such that apart from one incipient revolt, the century for the first time in a generation was free of civil strife. And abroad he carried all before him so that at his death he had come literally within two months of seeing his dram of uniting the kingdoms of England and France under his own sovereignty come true. Margaret Wade Labarge slows that in the conditions of the fifteenth century the union might have held and this most misrepresented of English kings would have changed the course of English history.'' BINDING/CONDITION: red binding with brown cloth at the spine; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. ISBN: 0-8128-1869-5. Seller Inventory # 067111
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First American Edition. Minor edgewear to jacket.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 219 pages. Seller Inventory # 241540
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