Best Sellers Campaign Collection
AGINCOURT
When Henry V was forced into battle at Agincourt, he and his small army were in deep trouble.
Many stricken by dysentery and all hungry, they had marched hard for 17 days and were exhausted. They had been cornered by a French force at least three times as big, which barred their route to Calais and safety. As the rain poured down on their makeshift camp, Henry and his men sharpened their weapons and said their prayers, while the French sang cheerfully round their campfires.The story of the 1415 campaign started in Portsmouth. Henry V had set sail with a much larger army to besiege Harfleur, a fortified town now part of Le Havre. How had he ended up facing near-certain defeat at Agincourt?
The CD/tape tells the epic story in six parts, from setting the political scene to the triumphal return.
The Somme
The British army's appalling losses on the first day of the Battle of the Somme shocked the nation and led to an enduringly cynical opinion of the generals.
Mistakes were certainly made, which contributed to the loss of thousands of lives, yet Douglas Skene's clear narrative, placing of the events in the context of their time, will raise other questions in the listener's mind and challenge the conventional view that they died in vain.
Currently the best seller in the Campaign Trail series. See also Ypres narrated by Douglas Skene.
WATERLOO
"The closest run thing you ever saw in your life" was the Duke of Wellington's own verdict on one of the great decisive battles in European history.
Each side lost over 20,000 soldiers, but was it a British or an Allied victory?
Did Wellington win it, or did Napoleon lose it?
"We left the place reluctantly, much better informed and most agreeably entertained. I cannot recommend the experience too highly"
Dr Colin Niven
