A remarkable piece of detective work … Like Crécy itself, this book is a triumph, and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.
Bernard Cornwell, Bestselling author of The Last Kingdom
Original, insightful and revelatory — Michael Livingston has once again transformed the way we think about one of the great battles of the Middle Ages. An indispensable guide for anyone interested in Crécy and the Hundred Years War.
Dan Jones, Bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Powers & Thrones
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A remarkable new study on the Battle of Crécy, in which the outnumbered English under King Edward III won a decisive victory over the French and changed the course of the Hundred Years War.
The Battle of Crécy in 1346 is one of the most famous and widely studied military engagements in history. The repercussions of this battle, in which forces led by England’s King Edward III decisively defeated a far larger French army, were felt for hundreds of years, and the exploits of those fighting reached legendary status. Yet new, groundbreaking research by author Michael Livingston has shown that nearly everything that has been written about this dramatic event may be wrong.
Livingston reveals how he has used archived manuscripts, satellite technologies and traditional fieldwork to reconstruct this important conflict, including the unlocking of what was arguably the battle’s greatest secret: the location of the now-quiet fields where so many thousands died.
Crécy is a story of past and present. It is a new history of one of the most important battles of the Middle Ages: a compelling narrative account that still adheres to the highest scholarly standards in its detail. It is also an account that incorporates the most cutting-edge revelations and the personal story of how those discoveries were made.