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I just finished Agincourt this morning at my favorite Paneras coffee shop. It is the kind of book I most enjoy. So well done with it's 66 page unwaveringly intense battle scene in which I was totally involved. What a feat of writing! I feel thrilled and more informed about this era and event and I greatly thank you for taking the time to write it. Dr. Steve Bryant

Sir, I just finished Agincourt. I could not put the book down. What an amazing accomplishment! I salute you! I speak on a number of topics related to ethics and leadership and use history as a foundation for many of my talks. As a former military officer and now corporate executive with over 40 years of leadership and management experience, I have come to appreciate that a strong connection with our past is essential if we are to lead other individuals today even under the most difficult circumstances. I had some combat experience in fighter aircraft (Desert Storm) and logged 1,020 carrier landings in some horrendous conditions over my career. I have some sense of the feeling one gets in the pit of ones stomach in committing to action most likely nothing like what was experienced in Medieval warfare. As I read Agincourt and your vivid description of the men preparing for battle, I could sense their anxiety, fear, and self-doubt. King Henry was impressive, not in the sense that he pursued the mission with his force diminished and sick, but the fact that he quickly devised a strategy, managed his forces and got out in front to fight with his men offers an excellent measure of the King's strategic thinking, leadership ability, and character. He led by example, and he managed to elicit the best efforts from his men. I salute the French as well for their courage and willingness to lay it all on the line to defend their homeland. If they had a leader like Henry at Agincourt, this story would have had a different outcome. Your work, Mr. Cornwell, provides a wonderful vehicle to encourage members of any culture to read, understand and connect with their past. Some one once wrote, "To be human is to remember." I would carry that further and offer that to remember is to survive. Again, thank you so much for your dedication to recapture, with such brilliance, those events from the past that help shape a nations cultural identify. We need more of that, particularly here in the United States. I am in awe of your work. I have a lot of reading to do to catch up on your other masterpieces. Keep up the good work. With my best personal regards, Marv Serhan Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired)

I just discovered your books and have read the Archer and the Last Kingdom. OMGOMGOMG, I love your books. I am a history buff and you do an amazing job making it come alive. I will read every single book you have written (eventually). Thank you for making my life much more interesting. I now have a favorite author, you. Scott Nietman

How to start this, dear Mr Cornwell, when I pick a book of yours I get totally immersed in the characters,story lines and the battle detail, well the whole feeling of the book. Thank you for the gifts of literature you give,totally awesome.Sincerely, Dianne

Bernard, I'm a huge fan of your writing, and have been for a while. In a number of your books you mention how priests could not carry blades. Could you direct me to a source (preferably a primary source) that references this, and it's potential exceptions, if the latter applies at all. Thanks, and thank you for giving me hours worth of enjoyment with every book. Theo

Mr. Cornwell, I just wanted to thank you for writing such wonderful books. I have enjoyed them very much. They have filled lots of long idle hours for me. I look forward to your new books. John Wofford

I just completed my first of your books, Agincourt. I could not put it down. I am now going to make my way through other series I've collected of yours. I'm not sure whether I'm going to work my way through the Arthur trilogy first or The Saxon Tales, but after reading Agincourt, either way, I feel like I have a lot of great reading ahead. Thanks. Steven Lloyd

Mr. Cornwell: Yesterday I finished reading "Agincourt" and I had to tell you--line, I am sure, thousands of other people did!--how much I enjoyed the book. Since I was a child I was passionate by the Middle Ages, Ancient Rome/Greece and Egypt. I was just a bit disappointed with the end. It seemed to there was a need to develop a little bit more. But again, I guess it was just the frustration that it ended! Thank you for a wonderful History lesson. Emilia Rosa Kette

Dear Mr Cornwell, I just wanted to thank you for all the enjoyment reading your books have given me. So far I have read the Warlord, Saxon and Grail series' and have just finished Azincourt. I will next be reading the Starbuck chronicles (especially as I have recently finished Jeff Shaara's 'Gods & Generals' which got me interested in this period). You truly have a masterful gift for storytelling and bringing your characters so much to life that the reader can feel what they are going through, share their joy and pain and fret over their future and that of their loved ones. Uhtred has to be my favourite character and eagerly look forward to more of his adventures. Anyway, thanks again and please keep on doing what you do so magnificently ! (Oh and might we be hearing more from Nick Hook in the future ? ) Warmest regards Andy Green

I have enjoyed all your book in the Starbuck, Grail, and Saxon series. It's kind of a let down when I get to the last book in the unfinished series, and don't find out the "ending". No more books to read! Please try to tie up loose ends on these series before you jump into another one. It's like only getting to see 2/3rds of a movie. I enjoyed the whole Sharpe's series as well.
David Munson