HENRY V AS WARLORD
Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B73935
English Summary/英文概要： Idolized in his lifetime and immortalized by Shakespeare, Henry V is the military genius whose armies crushed the French at Agincourt against huge odds, and who went on to conquer north-western France, marrying the king’s daughter and becoming heir and regent. But Desmond Seward sweeps away the myths and idolatry to reveal Shakespeare’s hero-king as a cruel, intolerant bigot. He shows the ruthlessness of a man who called himself ‘the scourge of God’ when reproached for massacring French Christians: how he slaughtered prisoners of war, and whose blind ambition arose from his determination to prove his tenuous claim to the throne of England usurped.
Henry V, argues Seward, created a distrust between England and France that has lasted to this day.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 莎士比亚曾盛赞这位君王的不朽，亨利五世在阿金库尔战役是军队大举击败了法国人的反攻，并征服了法国的西北部，迎娶了国王的女儿和成为的王位的继承人。 但Desmond Seward却拨开了莎士比亚的过度美化的英雄国王，而是一个残暴，而又偏执的，而又毫无宽容之心的君王。 当法国基督徒辱骂他时，他显示了自己之所以被世人称作`上帝的祸害’ 的含义：他如何屠杀了战俘，以及从他决心证明自己篡夺英国王位的盲目野心。笔者Seward认为亨利五世是造成英法关系不和的诱因。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：‘a very readable book and full of good things .. the portrait is wonderfully done’
Daily Telegraph
‘reflects some of the latest scholarly research on the king.’
Spectator
About the Author/作者介绍： 德斯蒙德•西沃德的父亲是威廉•埃里克•路易斯•苏华德，曾作为一名一战飞行员的一位法国爱尔兰裔实业家，父亲在巴勒斯坦的这段从军经历，为儿子日后的小说《沙漠雄鹰》提供了文学素材。出生于在巴黎一个历史悠久的波尔多家族的西沃德，在北约克郡的安浦福斯和剑桥的圣凯瑟琳学院受教。西沃德曾撰写过许多关于法国中世纪的历史作品，其发表的关于军事修世会亦被业界认为是这方面的权威之作。西沃德精通法语和意大利语，拉丁语，中世纪英语和诺曼法语。他主要研究国外区域地点的相关原始文献资料，并以此撰写了许多历史有关的书籍。他发表的作品已经被译成十国语言，其中包括希伯来语和日语。Desmond Seward was born in Paris and educated at Cambridge University. He is the author of Richard III: England’s Black Legend, The Monks of War, and The War of the Roses.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Russia – Russitch, 1996
USA: Pegasus
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