Richard Wadge: 3 books
Arrowstorm
The Archer in the Hundred Years War
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Revealing the power behind one of history's most devastating weapons, this study chronicles the overwhelming importance of the military archer in the late medieval period. The longbow played a central role in the English victory at the battles of Crecy and Agincourt. Completely undermining the supremacy...
Archery in Medieval England
Who Were the Bowmen of Crecy?
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary Englishman. He had his own popular literature that...
Verneuil 1424
The Second Agincourt: The Battle of the Three Kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The first book about this decisive battle in the Hundred Years WarIn August, 1424, the armies of England, Scotland, and France met in the open fields outside the walls of Verneuil in a battle that would decide the future of the English conquests in France. The hero king Henry V had been dead for two...