“A Brief History of Medieval Warfare”

The rise and fall of English supremacy at arms, 1314-1485

For over 150 years, from 1314 to 1485, England fought an almost continuous war with her neighbours. This period saw the unprecedented supremacy of the English armies over those of Scotland and France. Peter Reid proposes that the key to England´s success lay in expert, well-financed preparations and a long-view approach to warfare.

Reid interweaves his analysis with a dramatic telling of the main events on land and at sea, from the terrible defeat a Bannockburn to the point when Henry VI was crowned in Paris, and the eventual slide into the bloody internal strife of the Wars of the Roses.

Excitingly told and powerfully persuasive, this account gives a fresh perspective to the conflicts of the medieval period.