History of the battle of Crecy in military book  Crecy 1346, Triumph of the Longbow by David Nicolle. The battle of Crecy, the major battle during the Hundred Years War, King Edward III and the Black Prince against the French. This superb historical book on the campaign ending with the battle of Crecy is a superb addition to any book collection.

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The battle of Crécy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War. It pitted the French Army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who as yet had no great military reputation; this was the battle where he 'won his spurs'. The Genoese crossbowmen were outshot by the English longbows and the pattern was set for the rest of the day: the French cavalry were committed piecemeal in fruitless charges against strong English positions, losing perhaps 10,000 men in the course of the fighting. After almost a millennium in which cavalry had dominated the field of battle, the infantrymen, and particularly the longbowmen, now ruled supreme.

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Book serial number W30. Price £4.99. Fully illustrated paperback with 366 pages.

The Crécy War by Lt-Col Alfred H. Burne

The Hundred Years' War between France and England has fascinated professional and amateur historians - including Shakespeare - down the centuries. It was, in effect, four wars, and this volume is a military history of the Hundred Years' War from 1337 to the Peace of Brétigny in 1360. Its companion volume The Agincourt War covers the latter part of the war to 1453.

It was a war in which the English won a number of battles against the odds - from the great sea battle of Sluys to the astonishing victories at Crécy and Poitiers, where the French king was captured. Sir Arthur Bryant said of Colonel Burne's book - 'A most important book- a work of original research, written by a master of his subject... A model of how history should be written, packed with accurate information and commonsense'.

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The Armies of Crecy and Poitiers by Christopher Rothero

Book serial number Osprey MA111. Price £8.99. 

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