I am thrilled to welcome pre-orders for Crécy: Battle of Five Kings!
For years I’ve been thinking about this massive and important battle, trying to determine what happened on the fields of northern France in 1346 … and where those fields even were! Working on such questions, Kelly DeVries and I co-edited The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook, which won a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History in 2017. I’m tremendously proud of what we managed to accomplish.
But that doesn’t mean our work of understanding Crécy ever ended.
History is a pursuit, not a prize.
Today, in 2022, I understand far more about 1346 than I did five years ago, and Crécy: Battle of Five Kings is the result: a compelling narrative, backed by cutting-edge scholarship, revealing what we know and how we know it.
It’s really awesome and it’s coming this summer.
Here’s the word on the street:
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
There are master conflict analysts. There are master storytellers. There are master historians. Only once in a lifetime do you find all three skills at the highest level in a single person. Crécy: Battle of Five Kings is what you get when that person writes a book.
Myke Cole, author of Legion Versus Phalanx and The Bronze Lie
Seriously, if you love history — especially if you love the kind of history I wrote in Never Greater Slaughter — I’m pretty sure you’re going to love this book.
Available for pre-order now, wherever fine books are sold!