AGINCOURT: THE KING, THE CAMPAIGN, THE BATTLE
Book ID/图书代码： 07980005B06203
English Summary/英文概要： When Henry V and his ’band of brothers’ defeated the assembled might of French chivalry on a rainy October day in 1415 it was a defining moment in English history. Against all the odds, 9,000 exhausted English men claimed victory from an army of 20,000 and for six centuries the battle of Agincourt has informed the nation’s self-image and been celebrated as a triumph of the underdog. But what is the truth behind the battle upon which so many legends have been built? In this landmark study of Agincourt, prize-winning author Juliet Barker draws upon a huge range of sources to give a compelling account of the battle. But she also looks behind the action on the field to paint a portrait of the age, moving from the ambition of kings to the dynamics of daily life in peace and war. A mad king, murderous dukes, scheming bishops, knightly heroes, surgeons, heralds, spies and pirates; the story of Agincourt has them all.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1415年十月的某一个雨日，亨利五世和他手下的一帮兄弟们击退了强大的法国骑兵，这在英国历史上是一个划时代的时刻。这场被称为阿金库尔战役的战争已经成了英国的自我形象。六百多年来，阿金库尔战役一直被歌颂为处于弱势的一方顶住巨大困难最后取得凯旋的经典，这场战役体现了原则和决心战胜了自负和自大，勇敢的普通人胜过了放荡的独裁者。但是这场孕育出那么多传奇故事的战役背后的真相究竟是怎样的呢？
作者借鉴了大量的资源---有些是出版的资料，有些尚未出版，一部分是英文，一部分是法文，精彩地叙述了这场战役。当然JULIET BARKER也分析了战争背后的很多不为人知的故事，譬如在准备这场在当时看来规模相当大的侵略战争时的所有后勤工作以及在和平与混战时期日常生活……
1415年10月25日，当第一缕曙光降临时，有两只军队在法国东北部的一个隐秘角落处的高原上正面交锋，这场战争即将成为整个欧洲史上最响当当的一次。战争的一方是刚刚从入侵诺曼底归来的残余英国军队，他们攻克了战略重地哈弗勒城----这可大大地挫败了法国人的傲气。当然这次围攻也是付出沉重代价的，参加这次远征的一万两千名士兵中，只有一半的人最后得以汇集在阿金库尔战场上。这剩下的一半人中，只有九百人是重骑兵和在当时被称为人体坦克的士兵，他们从头到脚都用板金甲武装起来，被大家公认为军事领域里的精英部队。其余的则是英格兰和威尔士的弓剑手，他们的防御盔甲尽可能的少，受里拿了只长弓------这把长弓是该岛上的特长。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Juliet Barker出生于约克郡，她先后就读于布拉德福女子学校和牛津大学的圣安妮学院的历史系。Juliet因为在创作文学类传记作品中的独树一帜而得到广泛的好评，譬如《布朗提斯姐妹》、《沃兹沃斯的一生》，而且她也是位骑士专家，中世纪英国巡回赛的权威。1999年的时候，她被英国百霍特大学授予了荣誉文学博士，这是对她在文学传记领域取得的杰出成就的一种肯定，她也是这个头衔最年轻的接受者之一。2001年的时候，她被皇家文学协会选为院士。
Juliet Barker obtained a codtorate in medieval history at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. From 1983-1989 she was the curator and librarian of the Bronte Parsonage Museum. Her books include THE BRONTES, which won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year award and was short-listed for both the AT&T Non-Fictoin Prize and The Marsh Biography Award,THE BRONTES: A Life in Letter, Wordsworth: A Life, Wordsworth: A Life in Letter. Weidnfeld published THE BRONTES in the UK and Dutch rights were to De Bezige Bij, Swedish rights, to Bonniers and US rights to Overlook and Ecco is publishing her Worsworth biography in the US. Juliet Barker’s joint publicatoin with Richard Barber Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pagaents in the Middle Ages ( The Boydell Press 1989) - Ss rights went to Weidenfeld (1989). French CE 12 (1989) and German rights to Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Patmos verlag (2001).
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