The year is 1485 and an old man, in all likelihood the last of his breed, begins to relate his past life to a man in whom he sees a kindred spirit. Richard Stanyard, once an archer of Henry Vth tells of his former life as a participant in the king's great victory at Agincourt and the subsequent actions and sieges of the campaign to conquer France. Although these events are now decades past and the old man is well into his dotage, a mere shell of his former self, he has remembered it all. Joy and sorrow, pride and guilt, yet he is determined that the times through which he lived and those who...