The Battle of Agincourt’s status as perhaps the greatest victory against overwhelming odds in military history — and a keystone of the English self-image — has been called into doubt by a group of historians in Britain and France. The English Montaigne: A review of William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu. A review of Reading Gladstone by Ruth Clayton Windscheffel. A review of Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England by Adam Kuper. A review of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew (and more). A review of Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 by Thomas Hennessey and Claire Thomas (and more and more and more and more and more and more; and what do real life spooks make of fictional spies?). A review of books on British intelligence. An article on

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