Freedom’s Own Island

‘A patriot’s lucid story of his country’s fortunes’ — Ronald Blythe Country Life

This book opens with one of the last great battles of the Middle Ages — the victory of Henry V’s tiny army over the French at Agincourt. It ends almost exactly four hundred years later, on a field not very far away, when another outnumbered British force won an equally famous victory wat Waterloo. The period between the two saw Britain grow from a minor power on the fringes of European civilisation into the most influential nation in the world.