Henry, King Of France By Heinrich Mann
As highly competent as some of his correct-hand men had been, only Henry could have made it all function. He was a young man when he died – ambitious, fortunate, and with a magnetism that forged powerful alliances, such as that with the Holy Roman Emperor in 1416. The most striking factor about Henry was his staggering lack of self-doubt. Far from becoming a reluctant wager of war, the famously pious Henry V even welcomed war, seeing it as an…