Dan Jones

Oh, yeah. Oftentimes I found it does sound a lot like Jocko. There's two occasions spring to mind. There are lots of different reports of what Henry says before the Battle of Agincourt, how to rouse his troops. Probably he says a bunch of different things because you can't address the whole army in one go. Then we have Shakespeare, you know, the Great St. Crispin's Day speech.

The one that sounds most like Henry, if you read the other things that he dictated in his own words, is an account from a London Chronicle which says all he said before the Battle of Agincourt was, fellas, let's go. There's three words. That's the motivational speech. And then there's another occasion, quite similar actually. It's 1419 after the Ciduron.

The one that sounds most like Henry, if you read the other things that he dictated in his own words, is an account from a London Chronicle which says all he said before the Battle of Agincourt was, fellas, let's go. There's three words. That's the motivational speech. And then there's another occasion, quite similar actually. It's 1419 after the Ciduron.

The one that sounds most like Henry, if you read the other things that he dictated in his own words, is an account from a London Chronicle which says all he said before the Battle of Agincourt was, fellas, let's go. There's three words. That's the motivational speech. And then there's another occasion, quite similar actually. It's 1419 after the Ciduron.

a horrible, horrible winter siege which has gone on for six months. Henry has starved the inhabitants of Rome into submission.

a horrible, horrible winter siege which has gone on for six months. Henry has starved the inhabitants of Rome into submission.

a horrible, horrible winter siege which has gone on for six months. Henry has starved the inhabitants of Rome into submission.

There have been occasions where the citizens of Rome have chucked out useless mouths, quote unquote, women, children, the elderly, people who can't fight but are consuming food and resources, throwing them out of the city, but the English won't allow them through the siege lines, so they're starving in the ditch, the moat, let's say, the dry ditch that surrounds the city of Rome.

There have been occasions where the citizens of Rome have chucked out useless mouths, quote unquote, women, children, the elderly, people who can't fight but are consuming food and resources, throwing them out of the city, but the English won't allow them through the siege lines, so they're starving in the ditch, the moat, let's say, the dry ditch that surrounds the city of Rome.

There have been occasions where the citizens of Rome have chucked out useless mouths, quote unquote, women, children, the elderly, people who can't fight but are consuming food and resources, throwing them out of the city, but the English won't allow them through the siege lines, so they're starving in the ditch, the moat, let's say, the dry ditch that surrounds the city of Rome.

And when the citizens of Rouen decide that they're going to capitulate, they're going to give up, they send messengers to Henry to negotiate peace. And top of their list of sort of immediate things they want to this peace deal is soccer, is help for the starving people in the ditch around Rouen.

And when the citizens of Rouen decide that they're going to capitulate, they're going to give up, they send messengers to Henry to negotiate peace. And top of their list of sort of immediate things they want to this peace deal is soccer, is help for the starving people in the ditch around Rouen.

And when the citizens of Rouen decide that they're going to capitulate, they're going to give up, they send messengers to Henry to negotiate peace. And top of their list of sort of immediate things they want to this peace deal is soccer, is help for the starving people in the ditch around Rouen.

They say, first, before we do anything else, please, like humanitarian aid, get some help to these poor people starving in the ditch. And Henry just looks at them and says, fellas, who put them there? This is on you. Don't come to me with your whiny bullshit. So he has this cast iron determination. And sometimes there's no sugarcoating. It's absolutely brutal.

They say, first, before we do anything else, please, like humanitarian aid, get some help to these poor people starving in the ditch. And Henry just looks at them and says, fellas, who put them there? This is on you. Don't come to me with your whiny bullshit. So he has this cast iron determination. And sometimes there's no sugarcoating. It's absolutely brutal.

They say, first, before we do anything else, please, like humanitarian aid, get some help to these poor people starving in the ditch. And Henry just looks at them and says, fellas, who put them there? This is on you. Don't come to me with your whiny bullshit. So he has this cast iron determination. And sometimes there's no sugarcoating. It's absolutely brutal.

But he's always coming back to discipline, focus, purpose, execute on what you say you're going to do.

But he's always coming back to discipline, focus, purpose, execute on what you say you're going to do.

But he's always coming back to discipline, focus, purpose, execute on what you say you're going to do.

which worked which ended up working despite it scared me a little bit on like the first couple pages yeah well i didn't tell my editors i was doing it until i just handed the book in and uh because i knew they'd say don't approach the book in this particular way it's gonna fit i just had this deep instinct that this was the way to tell the story and that there was a way to i mean henry is an a cold character he can and he can be hard to create empathy with but i just had this sense of