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Book Synopsis The Archers: Home Fires at Ambridge by : Catherine Miller
Download or read book The Archers: Home Fires at Ambridge written by Catherine Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Intriguing, comforting and endearingly familiar’ Katie Fforde ‘The BBC’s most downloaded radio show’ The Guardian ‘Incredible legacy’ ?The BBC ‘Longest running drama in the world’ The i News 'Wonderfully nostalgic and comforting' Culture Fly It's 1941 and the war rumbles on. Nowhere is immune to the effects of war, not even Ambridge. But in England's favourite village, something else is occupying the residents... When a prominent villager dies, the main beneficiary's name is a mystery, and no one knows who is set to inherit the estate, cottage and all. The name is hidden within a locked box and the villagers much uncover the password to find out the name of the beneficiary. So when five people are each sent a packet of seeds, the mystery deepens – could the seeds be part of a clue? And can they all work together to unlock the mystery and to discover who is set to inherit? This is the perfect read for all Archers fans.
Book Synopsis The Archer's Tale by : Bernard Cornwell
Download or read book The Archer's Tale written by Bernard Cornwell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the first book in the Grail Series—the spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his family's honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail. A brutal raid on the quiet coastal English village of Hookton in 1342 leaves but one survivor: a young archer named Thomas. On this terrible dawn, his purpose becomes clear—to recover a stolen sacred relic and pursue to the ends of the earth the murderous black-clad knight bearing a blue-and-yellow standard, a journey that leads him to the courageous rescue of a beautiful French woman, and sets him on his ultimate quest: the search for the Holy Grail.
Download or read book The Archer's War written by Martin Archer and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battles occur and women are won and lost when William and Thomas return from the crusades and discover that King Richard has ignored his regent's appointment of William to be the Earl of impoverished Cornwall and appointed someone else. He will have to fight for the title again. This is the fourth book in the acclaimed "The Company of Archers'" saga set in beautiful and brutal medieval England and the Holy Land at the dawn of Britain's rise as a great military and merchant power. There are many more. Readers may also enjoy the five books of Martin Archer's highly acclaimed "Soldiers and Marines" saga about a young soldier who comes of age in a vicious war and fights in many others when he decides to become a professional soldier.
Download or read book The Archers written by Catherine Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-order Victory for Ambridge, the brilliant new novel in The Archers series, coming Spring 2024. Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the beloved radio show, Ambridge at War takes readers back to before it all began . . . ‘Intriguing, comforting and endearingly familiar’ Katie Fforde It’s 1940 and war has broken out. It is midnight at the turn of the year, and Walter Gabriel speaks the same line that opened the very first radio episode – 'And a Happy New Year to you all!' For Ambridge, a village in the heart of the English countryside, this year will bring change in ways no one was expecting. From the Pargetters at Lower Loxley to the loving, hard-working Archer family at Brookfield Farm, the war will be hard for all of them. And the New Year brings the arrival of evacuees to Ambridge, shaking things up in the close-knit rural community. As the villagers embrace wartime spirit, the families that listeners have known and loved for generations face an uphill battle to keep their secrets hidden. Especially as someone is intent on revealing those secrets to the whole village . . .
Book Synopsis The Archers Story by : Martin Archer
Download or read book The Archers Story written by Martin Archer and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arrows fly, swords clash, nobles and church men are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are successfully blamed for things they did not do. This is a collection of the entire first six books in Martin Archer's exciting and action-packed saga of Cornwall's Company of Archers at the dawn of Britain's military supremacy and the beginning of its great merchant companies. It is an enjoyable and sometimes witty read that sticks pins into the church and nobility along the way. The on-going saga of the Company of Archers is set in dangerous and gritty feudal England during a time when there was great upheaval in Britain as the barons rose against the king, the Saracens were lashing out against the Christians for breaking a truce, and Islamic pirates from the Barbary Coast were fighting for control of the Mediterranean. This is British and English historical fiction at its action-packed best. It will appeal to the fans of books such as The Game of Thrones and authors such as Bernard Cornwell, Jeffrey Archer, C.S. Forester, Griff Hosker, Peter Darman, and Jerry Auteri.
Download or read book War Bows written by Mike Loades and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War bows dominated battlefields across the world for centuries. In their various forms, they allowed trained archers to take down even well-armoured targets from great distances, and played a key role in some of the most famous battles in human history. The composite bow was a versatile and devastatingly effective weapon, on foot, from chariots and on horseback for over a thousand years, used by cultures as diverse as the Hittites, the Romans, the Mongols and the Ottoman Turks. The Middle Ages saw a clash between the iconic longbow and the more technologically sophisticated crossbow, most famously during the Hundred Years War, while in Japan, the samurai used the yumi to deadly effect, unleashing bursts of arrows from their galloping steeds. Historical weapons expert Mike Loades reveals the full history of these four iconic weapons that changed the nature of warfare. Complete with modern ballistics testing, action recreations of what it is like to fire each bow and a critical analysis of the technology and tactics associated with each bow, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in ancient arms.
Book Synopsis Harlequin (The Grail Quest, Book 1) by : Bernard Cornwell
Download or read book Harlequin (The Grail Quest, Book 1) written by Bernard Cornwell and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the time when the English came across the Channel to take the battle to the French.
Download or read book Arrowstorm written by Richard Wadge and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the overwhelming importance of the military archer in the late medieval period. The longbow played a central role in the English victory at the battles of Crecy and Agincourt. Completely undermining the supremacy of heavy cavalry, the longbow forced a wholesale reassessment of battlefield tactics. Richard Wadge explains what made England's longbow archers so devastating, detailing the process by which their formidable armament was manufactured and the conditions that produced men capable of continually drawing a bow under a tension of 100 pounds. Uniquely, Wadge looks at the economics behind the supply of longbows to the English army and the social history of the military archer. Crucially, what were the advantages of joining the first professional standing army in England since the days of the Roman conquest? Was it the pay, the booty, or the glory? With its painstaking analysis of contemporary records, Arrowstorm paints a vivid portrait of the life of a professional soldier in the war which forged the English national consciousness.
Book Synopsis Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 by : John K. Thornton
Download or read book Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 written by John K. Thornton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires. It includes the discussion of: : * the relationship between war and the slave trade * the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies * the influence of climatic and ecological factors on warfare patterns and dynamics * the impact of social organization and military technology, including the gunpowder revolution * case studies of warfare in Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Benin and West Central Africa
Book Synopsis Ancient Chinese Warfare by : Ralph D. Sawyer
Download or read book Ancient Chinese Warfare written by Ralph D. Sawyer and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading historical scholar offers the definitive account of the strategies and technology that shaped the earliest Chinese dynasties--from walled defenses to chariot-driven warriors.
Download or read book The Able Archers written by Brian J Morra and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983, the world stands at the brink of nuclear annihilation, and only a few people are aware of it. A riveting story of how two men's lives intersect in the midst of an existential crisis, The Able Archers is told through the eyes of two key participants: a young American intelligence officer, Captain Kevin Cattani; and his more experienced Soviet counterpart, Colonel Ivan Levchenko. The story plays out from the skies over Siberia to the gritty, dangerous streets of East Berlin. The radically different worldviews of Cattani and Levchenko punctuate the deep divisions of the Cold War. The evolving relationship between the two men also highlights the humanity common to both sides. Only by working together will Cattani and Levchenko find a way to prevent a global nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Book Synopsis Archery in Medieval England by : Richard Wadge
Download or read book Archery in Medieval England written by Richard Wadge and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary Englishman. He had his own popular literature that left us a romantic version of the lives and activities of outlaws and poachers such as Robin Hood. This remarkable development began 150 years after the traumatic events of the Norman Conquest transformed the English way of life, in ways that were almost never to the benefit of the English. This book is the first account of the way ordinary men used bows and arrows in their day-to-day lives, and the way that their skills became recognised by the kings of England as invaluable in warfare.
Book Synopsis The Art of War in the Western World by : Archer Jones
Download or read book The Art of War in the Western World written by Archer Jones and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnum opus of one of America's most respected military historians, The Art of War in the Western World has earned its place as the standard work on how the three major operational components of war--tactics, logistics, and strategy--have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Greece through the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Thirty Years' War and from the Napoleonic campaigns through World War II, which Jones sees as the culmination of modern warfare, to the Israeli-Egyptian War of 1973.
Book Synopsis The Archer's Tale by : U. S. Military
Download or read book The Archer's Tale written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of England's success in the Hundred Years War is attributed to England's use of large infantry formations made up of commoners armed with the longbow. A variety of factors including the Black Death and the amalgamation of several cultures, created a society in England with a relatively high degree of social mobility. The demands of war against a much larger opponent combined with England's relative social mobility made it possible for England to incorporate low born archers into their professional military community which previously only included the aristocracy and the gentry. The success of these common archers on the battlefield continued to increase the level of social mobility available to low born men. English "Yeoman Archers," as they came to be known, became the embodiment of a new social order in which ability was more prized than birth. They had a dramatic impact on the character of warfare in the fourteenth century and the development of the western way of war as we know it today. CHAPTER 1 - THE ARCHER'S TALE * CHAPTER 2 - ENGLISH SOCIETY IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY * The Three Estates of Man and the Feudalism. The Realities of English Society * Wealth and Social Mobility * Government * English National Identity * Plague and War in the Fourteenth Century * The Plague * The Hundred Years War * CHAPTER 3 - THE ENGLISH MILITARY COMMUNITY OF THE LATTER FOURTEENTH CENTURY * The Social and Economic Realities of the English Military Situation in the Fourteenth Century * Training * Why Join the Army? * Conclusion * CHAPTER 4 - THE ENGLISH ARCHER * The Yeoman Archer * Hunting in the King's Forest * Outlaws, the Robin Hood Legend, and Royal Pardons * Conclusion * CHAPTER 5 - THE ARCHER'S IMPACT ON WARFARE AND SOCIETY * CHAPTER 6 - CONCLUSION * BIBLIOGRAPHY In order to understand the archer's place in society one must first have some understanding of society as a whole. Therefore, chapter 2 begins with a brief discussion of English society in the fourteenth century. This discussion addresses how English society tried to define itself utilizing the three estates, and how the realities of English society differed from this idealized model. Additionally, there is a brief examination of the major events that shaped the fourteenth century. Chapter 3 narrows the focus to examine the English military community of the fourteenth century. It is necessary to discuss the structure of the military community and the social aspects that determined who served as a man-at-arms and who served as an archer. It will also be necessary to examine the social and military realities of the English position at the beginning of the Hundred Years War that necessitated their reliance on archers. These discussions will establish a firm understanding of English society and the English military community and allow for a more detailed analysis of the social status of English archers. The fourth chapter examines the social status of English archers as well as the specific aspects of English culture that allowed England to create a massed archery capability when no other western monarchy could. This study will conclude with an examination of the archer's impact on the western way of war and English society.
Book Synopsis The King's Archer by : Francis Lecane
Download or read book The King's Archer written by Francis Lecane and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas of Lingen, a young archer in the army of the Earl of March does the Earl a service and is promoted He takes part in the Battle of Mortimer's Cross and the Earl now proclaimed King asks him to spy for him.After many adventures he is knighted on the battlefield of Towton and determines to find and wed his love. The Countess of Hambye. She has vanished. He must track her to France and rescue her.Eventually the story is resolved.
Download or read book The Longbow written by Mike Loades and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An iconic medieval missile weapon, the deadly longbow made possible the English victories at Crecy and Poitiers at the height of the Hundred Years' War. The longbow was the weapon at the heart of the English military ascendancy in the century after 1340. Capable of subjecting the enemy to a hail of deadly projectiles, the longbow in the hands of massed archers made possible the extraordinary victories enjoyed by English forces over superior numbers at Crécy and Poitiers, and remained a key battlefield weapon throughout the Wars of the Roses and beyond. It also played a leading role in raiding, siege and naval warfare. Its influence and use spread to the armies of Burgundy, Scotland and other powers, and its reputation as a cost-effective and easily produced weapon led to calls for its widespread adoption among the nascent armies of the American Republic as late as the 1770s.
Book Synopsis The Archer's Castle by : Martin Archer
Download or read book The Archer's Castle written by Martin Archer and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Archers Castle" is the second book in an exciting action-packed saga set in medieval England during the days of King Richard and King John prior to the Magna Carta. It is the tale of an English serf who rises to become the captain of a company of archers and leads its survivors as they fight their way back to dangerous and brutal feudal England after King Richard suddenly abandons his crusade--and what happens to him and his archers when they return. Most of the archers do not return as a result of the intense fighting against the invading Saracens, but some of the former serfs and free men do return - as battle hardened veterans determined to improve their lot in cruel and brutal feudal England. This exciting novel combines action-packed historical fiction with a family saga set in an era of non-stop war and action."The Archer's Castle" is the second novel in the saga. William, his brother Thomas, and William's son George finally reach feudal England with the surviving archers and become embroiled in a war with the Earl of Cornwall that will change England forever.Readers interested in the following themes will enjoy this epic saga:Military Historical FictionAction and adventure fictionAction and adventure War & MilitaryWorld history medievalThriller and SuspenseFamily saga fictionHistorical militaryHistorical fictionAction and adventure romanceWar fictionBritish & Irish HistoricalGenre fiction warGenre fiction sagaGenre fiction historicalAlternative historyFans of the following authors may also enjoy the book.Andy farman,Andrew Wareham,Martin archer,Archer,Archer book,Archer game,Medieval times,Medieval romance,Medieval saga,Medieval knights,Medieval authors,Medieval fiction,Ben Avery,Bernard Cornwell,Book of life,Books for men,Book for soldier,Book for marine,Book for sailor,c. j. carella,C. May,C. Ryder,Archer captain,Colin Gee,Christopher Nicole,Christopher Nuttall,Cornwall,About England,Company of archers,Dan eldredge,David Allin,David Black,David downing,David piling,England,English saga,British saga,Fiction books,English book,English story,Feudal times,Game of thrones,Fiction for men,Action adventure,Military book,War book,War story,Military story,Solders story,Marine story,Fredrik nath,Game books,Game of thrones books,C. Martin,Game of thrones throne,Free book,George shipway,Giles Kristian,Grant blackwood,Gordon landsborough,Grant blackwood,Hornblower,C. Forrester,Griff Hosker,H. Culley,Harold Coyle,Larry Bond,Harry Homewood,Harry Kellogg,Hector Bywater,Historical fiction,Historical saga,Historical story,Historical novel,English fiction,Ira Tabankin,J payne,Hunter goforth,Jack badelaire,James Hogan,James nelson,Jason born,James mace,James rosone,Jerry autieri,Joe weber,John Bainbridge,John Birmingham,h. Culley,Harold coyle,Larry bond,Tom Clancy,Historical fiction,Military fiction,War fiction,Harry kellog,Historical fiction England,Historical fiction Britain,Historical fiction uk,Historical fiction story,Historical fiction novel,Historical fiction,Feudal times,Medieval times,Medieval knights,Knights Templar,Richard lionheart,King Richard,Ira tabankin,j. swift,j payne,john danielski,john schettler,john Thomas,Justin conboy,Conroy,Jonaathan braze,Ken hagen,Kenneth macksey,Larry bond,Larry schwikert,Magna carta,Captains men,Medieval,Feudal,Medieval archer,English archer,English soldier,Marine,Medieval life,Medieval story,Medieval love,Medieval armour,Feudal times,Medieval England,Medieval armour,Armour,Armor,Swords,Battle axe,Medieval pirates,Michael farmer,Michael Cunningham,Mike Crawshaw,Cornwell,Mike miller,Nicholas sansbury,Game of ThronesThronesMedieval thrones
