Henry V As Warlord (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

This is a controversial re-examination of Shakespeare's hero-king - the ruthless military genius whose armies crushed the French at Agincourt against incredible odds and swept across Normandy in the early fifteenth century, reviving the long-dormantHundred Years War. Desmond Seward argues that Henry V was an intolerant bigot whose grand scheme to conquer France derived from his tenuous claim to the Crown of England, and which bankrupted the monarchy and plunged the country into the bloody anarchy of the Wars of the Roses.

Desmond Seward is a highly-regarded historian of the late Middle Ages. He is the author of THE MONKS OF WAR (Penguin), THE WARS OF THE ROSES and RICHARD III: ENGLAND'S BLACK LEGEND (Penguin).