"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." Jesus, John 15:13 This very familiar verse from John's Gospel reminds us of the ultimate sacrificial act of love that Jesus demonstrated when He freely laid down his life as a sacrifice for each of us...His friends.

The year is 1415 and young King Henry V has landed a well-equipped English army in Normandy. On their march inland they encounter stiff opposition as they lay siege to the strategic city of Harfleur. However, their greatest enemy is dysentery which kills or incapacitates about one third of the army or 3000 men. After Harfleur surrenders, Henry marches on covering 200 miles in just 16 days. The English army now exhausted, filthy, and starving...