"HYW Book Info" Topic

I have a fair number of books dealing with the Hundred Years War most of them Osprey books and some others and many of them cover many things like Armor,Weapons etc.

But what I'm looking for is a book that covers all the Battles that took place during the Hundred Years War.

Now I have some books(mostly Osprey)which cover a single Battle like Agincourt or Crecy but I would like to know is if there is a single book which covers all the Battles of the Hundred Years War?

Michael

There are plenty of single volume histories of the Hundred Years War-Desmond Seward, Christopher Allmand, Robin Neillands and others have tacked the conflict. But nobody has written anything like "The Battles of the Hundred Years War. Your best bet might be the Hundred Years War essential history written by Anne Curry. I haven't read it, but Curry is a distinguished historian, very conversant with the military history of the period, and since it was commissioned by Osprey, probably more focused on military topics.

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Anne Curry is a well-respected scholar;highly recommended. You might want to try Ayton's 'The Knight and his Warhorse' for useful general info, also Professor Nicholson 'Edward III and the Scots' for the immediate prologue to the HYW and how Edward III developed his administration for war.

Alfred Burne's two volume history is quite thorough with the battles.

For the early phases of the war – War Cruel and Sharp by Clifford Rogers is essential.

Anne Curry and Juliet Barker's Agincourt books are very good.

Likewise Barker's Conquest is good on the final years of the war.

Johnathan Sumpton's multi-volume history of the HYW is very good (you can just skip to the battles).

Richard Wadge's Verneuil is a good modern study.

Hardy and Strickland's the Great Warbow is excellent with very good source based coverage of the battles.

For sources both Curry and Rogers publish companion volumes with extracts from the sources they relied on. Richard Barker has a volume covering the Black Prince. A good translation of Frossiart makes for a fun read.

And while having fun – try A Song of Ice and Fire – its the HYW/War of the Rose with a few Dragons thrown in.

TomT

X2 for GWA and TT….that lot should give you pretty much all you need in the way of reading for a good while.