Agincourt as written by Bob Juch
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:05 pm
https://www.amazon.com/Agincourt-Fight- ... =agincourt
Probably one of the most annoying books I have ever read. The author Fiennes take on the battle was to tell the story (in excruciating detail) about his relatives, on both sides, roles in England from the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Agincourt.
"My 26th Great-grandfather did blah-blah-blah."
Ranulph Fiennes has to be related to Bob Juch.
Bob should read another book by the author -"Mad Dogs and Englishmen."
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"Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through the twists and turns of history. From Charlemagne - himself a direct ancestor of the author - to the count who very nearly persuaded William the Conqueror to retreat at Hastings, many members of this unique clan have lived close to the nerve centre of the ruler of their day.
They number in their ranks a murderer, a wife poisoner, a poacher, England's greatest female traveller of the 17th century, an extortionist Lord High Treasurer, teen cousins who eloped, a noble lord hanged for manslaughter, another hanged for adultery with the king's wife, and many who, as admirals or major-generals, won famous battles.
The Fiennes' behind Cromwell provided the castle in which the Parliamentarians made their first secret moves, the same building in which 21 successive generations of the family have lived for 600 unbroken years. One Fiennes had his head cut off by the London mob and stuck on Tower Bridge, another led the First Crusade that captured Jerusalem. And that is just a taster."
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Probably one of the most annoying books I have ever read. The author Fiennes take on the battle was to tell the story (in excruciating detail) about his relatives, on both sides, roles in England from the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Agincourt.
"My 26th Great-grandfather did blah-blah-blah."
Ranulph Fiennes has to be related to Bob Juch.
Bob should read another book by the author -"Mad Dogs and Englishmen."
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"Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through the twists and turns of history. From Charlemagne - himself a direct ancestor of the author - to the count who very nearly persuaded William the Conqueror to retreat at Hastings, many members of this unique clan have lived close to the nerve centre of the ruler of their day.
They number in their ranks a murderer, a wife poisoner, a poacher, England's greatest female traveller of the 17th century, an extortionist Lord High Treasurer, teen cousins who eloped, a noble lord hanged for manslaughter, another hanged for adultery with the king's wife, and many who, as admirals or major-generals, won famous battles.
The Fiennes' behind Cromwell provided the castle in which the Parliamentarians made their first secret moves, the same building in which 21 successive generations of the family have lived for 600 unbroken years. One Fiennes had his head cut off by the London mob and stuck on Tower Bridge, another led the First Crusade that captured Jerusalem. And that is just a taster."
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