When the French attack, they win easily, sack the town, and torture and kill the English archers as well as the loyal French citizens, which shocks the rest of Europe. Burgundy and France are in bitter conflict. Hook escapes and joins an expedition to Soissons, in Burgundy, as a mercenary archer. Father Martin and Tom Perrill rape and murder the girl, and Hook's guilt at failing to save her haunts him throughout the story. Hook is then held for trial and anticipates execution. However, Father Martin decides to take the girl for himself, and in an unsuccessful attempt to shield her, Hook attacks the priest. One of them, an archer himself, asks Hook to protect his granddaughter, Sarah, after his execution. He is compelled to participate in the hanging and burning of a community of Lollard heretics. Nicholas Hook, a forester and archer, feuds with Tom and Robert Perrill and their biological father, the priest Father Martin. In the United States, it was published under the title Agincourt. The book relates the events leading to the Battle of Agincourt through its protagonist Nicholas Hook. Azincourt is an historical novel written by Bernard Cornwell, published in 2008.
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