The terrain there is much like that of the Somme – the scene of more bloodshed 500 years later – and when it rains, the flat ...

Shakespeare’s Henry V has long been celebrated as a stirring hymn to English valour, a theatrical counterpart to Churchill’s wartime oratory. But beneath its rousing rhetoric lies a darker truth of a ...

Henry V - A Soldier's Tale ... us echoes of Henry’s famously rousing St Crispin’s Day Speech before the Battle of Agincourt. Pistol comes across as a lovable rogue, but there is a real ...