Dammit

7 Responses to Dammit

1. mara the deplorable says:

   December 11, 2016 at 10:40

   He sure could. I just dug out his 2002 book “AA Gill is Away” for another read. Rip.
2. mawm says:

   December 11, 2016 at 13:13

   A very good read, very well written. I knew nothing about the battle.

   …Henry (V) had never shown anything other than disgust and incomprehension at the idea of hiding the pink sceptre.
   • Ronbo says:

     December 11, 2016 at 14:16

     Translation: He hated sex. No doubt one of the very few lusty Englishmen of the era.
3. Oswald Bastable says:

   December 11, 2016 at 14:32

   A superior peice of writing!
4. Darin says:

   December 11, 2016 at 16:13

   “The Man could sure write” I’ll say-

   ” Any terrified peasant could point and pull a trigger, but it took a lifetime of aching, deforming practice to muscle up the 100lb of tug needed to draw a yew bow to dispatch a cloth yard of willow-shafted, goose-feathered, bodkin-tipped arrow 200 yards through plate, through chain, through leather and linen and prayers, into a man’s gizzard. The longbow was the most lethally efficient dealer of death on European battlefields until the invention of rifling and the Gatling gun.”

   
   • Ronbo says:

     December 11, 2016 at 23:05

     Awesome writer….Awesome battle. What a massacre!
5. Cadwallader says:

   December 12, 2016 at 18:59

   In 1973 I was driven down that road in a Bedford van by a very new girlfriend who lived in Leeds. I recall her telling me about the battle but at 20 years old I was more interested in other things… Lovely piece of countryside despite its tragic past. Is there ever a winner in a civil war?