With new research and fascinating accounts of bloody battles, men-at-arms, development of tactics and battle-winning weapons - these books give valuable insight on warfare in medieval Britain.
With new research and fascinating accounts of bloody battles, men-at-arms, development of tactics and battle-winning weapons - these books give valuable insight on warfare in medieval Britain.
Comprising of two key titles:
Border Fury. England and Scotland at War, 1296-1568
For three hundred years England and Scotland fought a bitter series of wars for territorial enlargement.
Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603.
The book looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition from medieval to renaissance warfare, the development of tactics, arms, armour and military logistics during the period. All the key personalities involved are profiled and the typology of each battle site is examined in detail with the author providing several new interpretations that differ radically from those that have previously been understood.
This is a unique overview of the long history of the Anglo-Scottish Border Wars and gives a valuable insight into why the legacy of these battles lives with us today in the current climate of Anglo-Scottish relations and the devolution debate.
The Road to Crecy. The English Invasion of France, 1346
The Road to Crécy tells the story of the English expedition to France in 1346 which climaxed with the battle of Crécy.
On 26 August 1346 on a low ridge outside the village of Crécy-en-Ponthieu in northwestern France, an English army of perhaps 12,000 men under the command of King Edward III faced a combined French and German force five times their number under Edward's rival King Philip VI. The result, on the part of the French at least, was seen as a foregone conclusion. The English army, largely composed of foot soldiers and tired after days of marching and fighting, would be ridden down and overwhelmed by the armoured knights of France, then universally regarded as the finest fighting men in Europe.
A few hours later, all was over. Thousands of French knights and auxiliary troops lay dead or dying on the slopes of the ridge, shot down as they advanced by English and Welsh archers. King Philip, wounded twice by enemy arrows, had fled the field. The events of those few hours had changed the course of the Hundred Years War, the balance of military power in Western Europe, and the nature of warfare itself.
