Hundred Years' War: Longbows, Plague, and the Slow Invention of France and England

The longest war in European history contained about thirty hours of famous battle. This book is about the other hundred and sixteen years.Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt — the battles everyone remembers add up to roughly a day and a half of combat. What filled the century around them was the chevauchée: mounted raids sent to burn villages, wreck harvests, and prove to the French peasantry that their ki...