The sign of victory
The Mark of Victory is a novel by Bernard Cornwell , which was published on October 1, 2008 by HarperCollins under the name Azincourt . The German translation is by Karolina Fell and was published in Germany on September 18, 2009 by the Hamburger Wunderlich Verlag. The novel deals with the battle of Azincourt .
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England, early 15th century. The young shepherd's son Nicholas Hook is a particularly talented shooter with the longbow. He is at odds with Tom and Robert Perrill and their father, a priest. When the latter tries to attack the daughter of a convicted Lollard , Nick Hook interferes and injures the priest. Barely able to escape, Hook joins Henry V's (England) expedition to France to avoid his safe execution.
In Soissons , Nick saves Melisande, a young woman who will accompany him on his further journeys. After a few more difficulties, which these two have to overcome, they join Henry's army again and are present at the siege of Harfleur . This siege succeeds, but the English lose many men to the dysentery , Nick barely survives with Melisande's help.
The English soldiers move on and have to cross the Somme to reach their bridgehead, Calais . This will not succeed, however, because a numerically far superior French army is blocking all fords . Finally, at Azincourt , the decisive battle breaks out. Gradually a torrential rain sets in, turning the battlefield into a swamp, a terrain that will be doomed above all for the French knights in their heavy armor. The English line up and only slowly advance a little to get their longbow archer into the best position. As the French draw nearer, the English respond with an incessant hail of arrows, which the French have nothing to counter. The first wave of attacks is crushed.
Opposite the second wave of attacks, the English combine their foot troops with a hail of arrows from their last remaining arrows. The French are clearly intimidated by the two rounds of attack and are gradually fleeing the battlefield, but thousands are captured or left behind on the battlefield.
After this triumphant victory over the French, the once insignificant Nicholas Hook returns to England as a warrior with Melisande.
filming
In 2013, the start of the shooting of a film adaptation directed by Michael Mann was planned. The film should come out in theaters in 2014 [out of date] .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Mann's Agincourt Is Getting A Rewrite , Cinemablend report from May 2, 2013, accessed on June 18, 2013.